Tandy web page malarkey

Tony Duell wrote: Do remember that that the _real_ Tandy computer line ended with the sale of _all_ manufacturing or real support capability in 1993 to AST. (Well, the _real_ Tandy computer line ended in 1988 with the end ofthe Color Computer 3 and the TRS-80 4D, but I'm _trying_ to give some undeserved credit to the guys in the PC compatible product lines). Any "computer support" people they now have (including any so-called Web Masters) remember nothing of when Tandy designed and manufactured their own computers and software. And they did some of the best Z-80 software in history. Scripsit 2.0 for the Model II is the second-best _general purpose_ word processing program in history, just ahead of WordStar 3.3 and just behind AllWrite by Prosoft. In my arrogant opinion, and I started my career doing traing and support at a Radio Shack Computer Center in 1980, left in 1986 _because_ everything was about to be PC-compatible, and have since had to support crappy Microsoft users because they insist on connecting the damned things to the Unix boxes that are what I prefer. (I keep having to learn the latest collection of Microsoft errors [oops, the latest version of Windows] in self-defense). Yes, Microsoft was _critical_ to the success of several Tandy products, such as most BASIC interpreters and getting Xenix started. But they in the end destroyed Tandy's credibility with the help of Tandy Corp. -- Ward Griffiths They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else. Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_