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As well as developing hardware and software and running their mail-order catalog, Apparat was also active in retailing, opening up a couple of locations in the Denver area dedicated to selling products listed in the company's catalog. In 1984, the company opened up a branch office and retail store in
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Tandy were displeased with the popularity of NewDos/80, perceiving the software as infringing their copyrights to TRSDOS, and lodged cease and desist letters at
Apparat's front desk. However, a formal lawsuit was delayed by a dispute over legal ownership of TRSDOS between Tandy Corporation and Randy
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within TRSDOS. Cook found
Apparat's settlement terms tantamount to blackmail, but according to him, Tandy gave this strong consideration in order to avoid the battle for ownership of TRSDOS between the company and Cook. The lawsuit dissolved after Apparat rewrote NewDos/80 from scratch in 1981.
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published a rave review of the operating system in 1980, writing: "NEWDOS/80 belongs in every TRS-80 disk owner's software library. It is a superior operating system that increases the value of the microcomputer, whether you use it for recreation, business, or miscellaneous household purposes."
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to TRSDOS requiring the user already own a legal copy of the latter. Later versions were programmed from the ground up. NewDos/80 was immensely popular among users of the TRS-80 almost immediately after its publication.
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Cook, the original author of TRSDOS. According to Cook, Apparat themselves countered with a lawsuit against Tandy, giving Tandy an ultimatum by having them pay for
Apparat to fix an exhaustive list of
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product for the PC in 1983. Apparat's Hard Disk
Subsystem received high marks in the technology press of the time and was featured on the front cover of
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Employment at
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Authored by Ide, NewDos/80 was the first third-party operating system for the TRS-80, giving users an alternative to the TRS-80's native
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stores. Apparat themselves sold modified TRS-80s through their mail order catalog. The company pivoted to selling peripherals for the
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Starting in late 1980, Apparat briefly marketed Apex, an operating system developed by Peter Boyle. Apex was targeted at the
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stores and catalogs. Lauletta was also a founding member of the Denver 6502 Group, a very early
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Apparat was founded in 1978 by Jim
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in 1984. Other IBM PC peripherals that
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in 1980, the name christened by Dick Miller, Apparat's East Coast distributor.
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in 1982, continuing in this market until
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In the year of their founding, Apparat began work on an alternative
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monitors, RAM expansion cards, and floppy disk drives.
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