High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terry Craig (T.C.) Shannon (August 16, 1952 – May 26, 2005) was an information technology consultant, journalist and author. For over 30 years, he was involved in implementing PDP, VAX, and Alpha computers with their respective operating systems RSX, VAX/VMS; and OpenVMS & Windows NT. He was a respected journalist and analyst, paying particular attention to HP/Compaq and the high-performance computing space, writing a series of newsletters.