From: et472@ncf.ca   
      
   On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Bill Gunshannon wrote:   
      
   > Is there anyone here who might know if there is someone at Radio Shack   
   > (Corporate!) that might have the power to and be able to be convinced   
   > to release the sources for the old Tandy Computer stuff?  I am sure   
   > they held the copyrights on a lot of it and I can't imagine they are   
   > making much money on any of it today.   :-)   
   >   
   > I would love to have sources to things like TRSDOS for the Model-16.   
   >   
   I'm pretty sure this was discussed here years ago, before everyone left.   
      
   I seem to recall someone who did work for Tandy mentioning that Tandy   
   wouldn't own the stuff anymore, since they sold off the computer stuff to   
   whatever company it did, I can't remember the name.  I don't even think   
   that company still exists, I may not be able to remember the name but I   
   think it was one that later went out of business or was sold to some other   
   company.   
      
   It may not have been Tandy's software to begin with.  Things like   
   Microsoft BASIC in ROM may or may not have been bought by Tandy, depending   
   on how they negotiated.  In the early days, it was common for companies to   
   buy limited rights from Microsoft, but on the other hand, when the CoCo   
   III came out, Microware had to do weird things to Microsoft BASIC in order   
   to adapt it to it the CoCo III.  (If I remember right, the Microsoft code   
   was kept in ROM intact, the Microware code patched it on startup, or   
   something like that.).   
      
   Tandy also either bought some rights to things like games, or just acted   
   like a middleman, so what they could release (if they still held the   
   rights) might be limited.   
      
      Michael   
      
      
     > What some of the other stuff   
   that   
   wasn't actually Tandy's?  Is there > anyone from SuperSoft still around?   
   >   
   > bill   
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