Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, May 08, 2007, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 8, 2007 21:59, Jay R. Ashworth said:
>> > *Very* little known.  Who ported it, who owns it, what's his phone
>> > number?  :-)
>> 
>> Do not remember and I am out of town till the weekend so I cannot
>> even check till then.  I had to get it for a project I did YEARS
>> ago, I'm not so sure that FourGen was who I got it thru as we were a
>> Softa/FourGen VAR, too.  In any case I only used it for one account.
>> 
>> Keith
>
>     It wasn't a port done by a third party.  The original Softa/Fourgen
>code was available as both a DOS and a Unix version, and there was a
>corresponding Dos and Unix version of MenuMaster, both written by Keith
>Hanson, as far as I have been able to determine.  
>
>     I thought "Sound Ideas" had something to do with it at one time, or
>maybe they were just a MenuMaster reseller...
>
>     It would be really great to have somebody fully explain who the main
>players were in the Softa/Fourgen system, and how that all worked out.  I
>still have all my old Softa newsletters, but they say little about the
>owners, themselves.

As I remember, Loren West was the competent technical person, Gary
Galliardi was the President, and I don't remember the name of the third
person except that when I first met him he was managing the Radio Shack
Computer Center on Roosevelt in Seattle's University District.

Gary was also an ex Radio Shack manager as well (and approached me in the
mid '80s to join them in Softa).  Loren was the only real tech person.

Bill
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