On Sun, 24 May 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
<was based on the design Ray had come up with!
They went to a lawyer but
<were told that there was nothing that could be done since they didn't eve
<have a receipt for their plane ride to Texas signed-off by Radio Shack
<(they paid for the plane tickets themselves). Ray said he later learned
<that the project manager who Ray and Manny had dealt with took credit fo
<the TRS-80 design! The guy took Ray's design and passed it on to
<corporate as his own!
<
<Comments from you RS-heads? Allison? Ward?
Close enough. The internal story was it was a design that was used on the
deektop of an engineer whose last name began with an L. Somehow I didn't
buy it. The TRS-80 design was not very imaginative and some of the holes
showed. What was scary is if the guy that did the trs-80 design was good
he could have reduced the logic some and also incresed the speed!
Interesting. Now at least we know why the Model 1 was such a buggy
machine. It was based on a design that was thrown together from scratch
in a week!
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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