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Mr. Ed Juge
Tandy Corporation
1300 One Tandy Center
Fort Worth, TX 76102


Dear Mr. Juge:

Thank you for spending your time with me last week, and thank you for your
offer to loan me a Model II system to develop an extended version of  LISP
for this machine.  That  offer is most appreciated  for, as you  imagined,
"missionary work" does not pay particularly well. There are however,  very
hopeful signs in the university  and government applications of LISP.   We
will have a Model II in our LISP session at the West Coast Computer Faire,
and indeed will say "good things" about Tandy.

I believe that it will take no  more than six-months to move the  existing
code to the Tandy machine and  install the bank-switched version of  LISP.
This machine will satisfy the needs of several classes of LISP users.

Below is a statement that specifies that I will in no way infer that Tandy
or Radio Shack are involved in any  way with TLC-LISP for the Radio  Shack
machines.  I hope this will serve  the purpose. I do appreciate your  kind
offer; I will keep you informed of the product developments.



						    Yours sincerely,


						    John R. Allen
						    18215 Bayview Dr.
						    Los Gatos Ca, 95030
						    (408) 353-3857
							  353-2227






I, John R. Allen, founder  of The LISP Company,  Los Gatos CA, do  promise
that neither I nor any memeber of  The LISP Company, will in anyway  infer
that LISP  Company software  developed  for the  Radio Shack  Machines  is
sponsored by, or the responsibility of, the Tandy Corporation.

I acknowledge that the Tandy Radio  Shack Model II system, that I  receive
is the property of the Tandy Corporation, loaned the The LISP Company  for
a period no more than six months.



			      John R. Allen
			      March 16, 1981