TRS-80 Application Software Sourcebook

Sam Ismail wrote: The first couple of editions were a bit slender (vendors were in a state of shock from Tandy finally allowing mention of third-party products at all -- that's why Tandy didn't advertise in 80-Micro for at least the first 2-3 years it was published), but from about the third edition on that sucker got huge. It was discontinued after Tandy got into the 100% compatible business -- just too much PC software out there to list and keep the book portable. That's when they started the Express Order program allowing Tandy customers to order selected third-party software through the stores. A remnant of that still exists incorporated into the special order system now in the stores that offers third-party products in many categories, as well as some old software for the Color Computer, the Model 16, the Model 4 etc. that are originally Tandy products. (Now that I think about it, the Express Order program [900-series catalog numbers] started at least a year or two before the Tandy 1200 etc., mostly for specialized applications that Tandy was not prepared to acquire the expertise to support -- things like auto parts inventory systems, medical billing systems, etc. Much of that was for Xenix.) -- Ward Griffiths Dylan: How many years must some people exist, before they're allowed to be free? WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed", they'll never be free.