OT: Tandy Silver

[Bill Akers]

John Esak wrote:

>  him... what a moron.  :-)
> 
>>The names that come to mind are Rich Hollander, and Bernie Appel.
>>
>>Bill
> 
> 
> How funny. The guy I'm thinking of was Graham something... he came way late
> in things but was a major piece of work... completely arrogant and
> clueless... he was put in charge of Xenix... and his decision was to "kill
> it" and build the Tandy 2000 I think... :-)
> 
> Meanwhile, Bernie Appel, a little round bald guy... I talked with him
> several times but really did not know him very well. One TCBUG Conference he
> hit on Karen (my wife).  He asked her if she wanted to fly to Las Vegas with
> him in the company jet that night.... :-) 

I am not attempting to slander ANYONE, but the first time I saw Bernie 
in August 1975, there were rumors that he had made a similar 
statement(request,??) to a female at the meeting that I was attending. 
He and I had quite a discussion about the quality of the products being 
purchased(since he was in charge of purchasing at that time) and 
especially about certain portable tape cassette recorders that had a 
really poor chassis design. I had worked for the company that patented 
the chassis design and knew that the products had a really short life 
span before they started to have serious problems that would not be 
repairable because our own long term tests had shown that to be the 
case. He was really entertaining to have a drink with though in spite of 
the rumors that always seemed to spring up around him. Later became 
president of Radio Shack, I believe. He also put on one heck of a show 
at annual meetings.

>She saw him the same way I did, a
> little round bald man... :-)  Now, that _I_ am essentially a little round
> bald guy, I take more pity on him. :-)
> 
> John
> 
>Bill