OT: Tandy Silver

[GCC Consulting]

> All in all the RS thing was a great place to be for the 
> time... As Bill said they could have had the absolute lock on 
> the small business computer industry... and seeing what that 
> is today... this would have put Tandy just about side by side 
> with Microsoft in market dominance... I can "name" the 
> specific people who made the specific "wrong" choices, too... 
> and believe me it boiled down to only a few really 
> "short-sighted" people that Tandy hired at the time. They all 
> moved on to ruin other companies, too. The one guy whose name 
> escapes me at the minute actually made some of these 
> unbelievably bad decisions right in front of me.... at 
> meetings in FW as President of TCBUG, I had access to 
> meetings with some top people at Tandy, and this one guy (in 
> charge at the time) just really was about as "stupid" over 
> Xenix and the Mod 16 as the Xerox copier-heads were over the 
> much earlier Star... just unbelievable, Tandy can pin their 
> utter loss and failure in this market directly on him... what 
> a moron.  :-)
> 
> I wonder if people like him commiserate at big "Pete Best" 
> conventions??

A friend of mine was working for a Japanese company a few years ago and met with
the son in-law of the owner.

An American married to a Japanese girl and living in Japan.  He related a story
about a dinner he, the son in-law had attended with his father in-law and a few
of his father in-laws friends.

After a few sakes, they were reminanicing about WWII and how if the war had
lasted a bit longer they may have won.  The son in-law asked "what did you all
do in the war?.  Their answer shocked him.  They were kamikaze pilots.  He said
to them, "if the war lasted a bit longer, I guess that you wouldn't be here."
The subject changed quickly.

You might call those RS executives the kamikaze pilots of business.  In this
case however, the crash an burn the business, leave to go elsewhere and repeat
their business strategy elsewhere.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting