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The website says that the company was closed.

Does anyone have an insight on why Spectrum Software is now closed?

P.S. The man behind the company, Andy Thompson, seems to be an excessively humble person. He left a lot of details in the mist. However, all these details are priceless to us mere humans. Memoirs? A blog? 39 years in business is not a small feat.

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Perhaps his humility is the most important lesson to learn, esp. in the dominant culture of tech today.

And maybe the true payments were the friends he made along the way...

There needs to be a name for this kind of dead end aphorism thinking.

Cliche? Cheese?

“The true payments,” haha.

After 39 years the authors might have just retired.

Maybe their customer base was too small and their reference market too saturated to convince anyone to buy it.

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