[Coco] Another Radio Shack Article

[Boisy Pitre]

On Jan 6, 2014, at 8:30 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com> wrote:

> Just a side note, I still find it stunning that no one at Sierra - even Ken
> Williams and the guy officially credited with the engine conversion (name
> slips my mind at the moment) - didn't even RECALL doing any of the CoCo 3
> stuff. And obviously this was a company with a relatively long history of
> supporting Tandy products, including with Disney stuff. To be fair, Sierra
> supported a LOT of platforms, but you would think it would have been
> something of a decent business deal to get a "sure thing" contract like
> that considering that each and every Radio Shack store had to carry some
> type of Sierra product.

The name embedded in the KQ3 OS-9 modules is “Chris Iden”

I contacted Chris and spoke to him on the phone, and he stated flatly that he did the CoCo 3 port of the Sierra engine. We also got hold of Ken Williams (nice guy) and another guy who worked on Leisure Suit Larry (Saul…) but no one could remember doing the CoCo 3 work.  No one.

> Also, as someone who has written and is presently writing books related to
> Microsoft products, I can tell you that they're not helpful in any way with
> authors. Same goes for most other companies these days, though, so it's not
> particularly unique to Microsoft. In the case of the CoCo book, though, it
> was more about individuals, so the corporate entity really didn't factor
> into the equation.

Amen!