Tandy web page malarkey

From: Ray Holt <joltdesigner_at_usa.net>
Date: Mon May 25 20:16:11 1998

At 08:10 PM 5/25/98 +0000, you wrote:
>At 04:25 PM 5/25/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>Check out Tandy's version of history from their web page:
>>
>>"1977 TRS-80 Model I Personal Computer introduced.
>> (First mass-marketed personal computer. In contrast to
>> build-it-yourself computers available at the time, the TRS-80
>> was fully-wired and tested. Sold at a breakthrough price of
>> $599. More than 200,000 TRS-80 computers were sold from
>> 1977 to 1981.)"
>
>
> Let's see 200,000 units x $599 = LOTS of dough!!!!!! Boy, I'll bet Ray
>Holt is still crying in his beer!
>
> Joe

Joe,

Actually, I wasn't crying at all until I saw in "The Road Ahead" where the
marketing manager took complete credit for the entire concept and design.
Too bad the design was a prototype and not fully debugged. Guess he got
what he deserved. Besides we were only promised the first 2000 of production.

Ray Holt
>
Received on Mon May 25 1998 - 20:16:11 BST