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"We're having third-party authors work on software alternatives," he says. ''Important pieces of software we'll manufacture ourselves, if we have to, although that's a business we'd rather not be in."
Noting that TI stopped shippingsoftware at the end of March, Reitannotes, Unisource purchased "about $1million worth of software." (Interviewsfor this article were conductedin mid-March.) Of this, "some titles will be gone in45 days and some will last a year and ahalf," he predicts tentatively. Susan Smith, owner of Tree ofKnowledge in Reading, Pennsylvania,says her reaction was "just terror. Itwas awful. I figured that was the end.I'd never sell another TI computer.''" Now, she says, "I think they knewwhat there were doing. I didn't givethem enough credit. They did it at theright time. I had the best Christmasmarket ever and I'm getting theaftermarket now with the softwareand the peripherals." Bob DeMars of Specialist In in Minnetonka,Minnesota, says he was"very surprised that they pulled out." "It doesn't bother us," he adds."Business is good. It's never beenbetter." ==THIRD PARTIES==
"I think a lot of third parties are
creating software," DeMars says.
"We're creating software."
He describes a program for learning
BASIC they have that is "interactivenotinteractive not
just turning the pages of a
manual."
