[BillBohan]

I met that guy.

I was working for Tandy, repairing TRS-80 Model I circuit boards when he and his partner, Paul came to Tandy Apparatus with some engineers from Tandy R&D. They had the first masked ROMs for Level II BASIC. They put them on a board and tried it and it didn't work.

I took the board I had just repaired and went to them and told them that they were in a repair area and all of the boards were in need of repair. I offered the board I had repaired and told them that it should be able to run their ROMs.

They moved the ROMs to that board and powered it up. It came up with a MEMORY SIZE? prompt and William said to press enter. I did and it gave a READY prompt. I typed in a one-line program to print numbers and it started scrolling numbers down the screen.

William was so happy that he offered me a job at his company. He said that he had about a dozen employees. For personal reasons I was unwilling to locate outside Texas and turned down his job offer.