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If anyone is interested in contacting the author, here's the Internic record
for flexsoft.com:
Registrant:
Martin Moore
11420 Rothschild Pl
Dublin, CA 94568
US Domain Name: FLEXSOFT.COM
Domain Status: On Hold
Administrative Contact:
Moore, Martin (MM703) mmoore@xxxxxxxx
(510) 829-9733
Record last updated on 13-Jul-98.
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At 09:52 PM 9/29/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Stefano,
>
>I used to use it a few years ago before I switched to TS. I used it in
>conjunction with Metastock to do nightly scans. Back in those days it had
>the kind of programming flexibility that no other program even came close
>to. Even SystemWriter at that time which sold for more than 5 times the
>cost of TAS didn't have as much flexibility. For whatever reason the
>creator and programmer of TAS (Martin) decided to go back to working 9-5 for
>a living instead of in his words "sitting around waiting for the phone to
>ring." In my opinion TAS had a huge amount of potential to rival even
>SystemWriter if Martin had chosen to market it. I never saw ads for it or
>any other type of advertising aside from what came with Metastock. As
>Metastock faded so did TAS. Martin tried to make it compatible with
>Supercharts but at the time Omega would only divulge their proprietary file
>format for a few thousand dollars. That was a few thousand too much for
>Martin so he tried to hack the format but which didn't quite work 100% of
>the time. When last I talked to him a couple years ago, he was working on a
>Windows version but this was taking way too long since Martin didn't know
>windows programming all that well. Coupled with his new programming job,
>TAS was on the back burner and I suspect for good.
>
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