Tech journalist Robert X. Cringely dies at 73

Mark Stephens, known by the pen name Robert X. Cringely, died last week at 73. He chronicled the tech industry of the late 1980s and early 1990s and produced the documentary Triumph of the Nerds, based on his bestselling book Accidental Empires.

• Cringely wrote the InfoWorld column and kept the pen name after leaving the magazine in 1995
• His book Accidental Empires became the basis for the documentary Triumph of the Nerds
• In 2012 the full 70-minute 1995 Steve Jobs interview he filmed was released
• He later founded the startups MineServer and Eldorado Space