[ Technical researcher and writer. ] This was my first team research project at CompuSoft, and what an interesting one to start with. The Model 100 was the most innovative computer to come out of Tandy’s Texas headquarters in years. The size of a notebook, it was the precursor to today’s palmtop computers, complete with address book, telecommunications features, and, of course, built-in BASIC language. Dr. Lien routinely traveled the world with his Model 100, dialing into the office from afar to exchange email with staff. This was more than a decade before the Internet started to take off.

Trivia: CompuSoft’s office email system ran on an Apple II with Bill Blue’s Online messaging software. It later was replaced by the software I wrote which eventually evolved into ProLine. This confluence of events marked a twenty year (and counting) association with Bill Blue. He later started United Software Industries, Inc., where I worked on the MouseTalk application as an assembly language programmer. In 1993, we teamed up to create CTSnet.

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