It was, but it took Radio Shack a while to figure out what to do with it. It was kind of "a solution in search of a problem" until they decided to port Unix to

It was, but it took Radio Shack a while to figure out what to do with it. It was kind of "a solution in search of a problem" until they decided to port Unix to it. At first the plan was to use Unos from Charles River Data Systems, but then -- because Microsoft gonna Microsoft -- Microsoft came in and said that unless they made Xenix the Model 16's operating system, Tandy Corp.'s business relationship with Microsoft would be threatened.