(craigr) • Harry Browne was quite a computer buff. In the 1970s he was playing around with models of the portfolio idea and maybe even paid money to do some in-depth computer analysis of historical market data to prove/disprove the ideas they were developing. I asked John one time if they still had the original analysis data they had used, but he didn't.
Libertarian666 wrote:
I'm not sure I still have any of my correspondence with HB, but I may still have the newsletter issue where he mentioned the PP calculation software that I wrote for the TRS-80. This was before spreadsheets...
Yeah, I remember that newsletter issue and the software. Was that was in late 1982 or early 1983? I looked into buying the software, but didn't for some reason. If I recall correctly, he mentioned two vendors (depending on your type of computer) -- one in the US and one in Switzerland. I remember calling and talking to the US vendor. I think he was in Ohio.
I have the HB newsletters from 1980 to 1995 stuck away somewhere in my attic. One of these days I'll have to exhume them.
(Libertarian666) I was the vendor in the US, if it was TRS-80 software; the other was for the Apple IIe, I believe, although I could be wrong about that.
