IMSAI II - still viable OR has anyone else lost their deposit?

[Dave McGuire]

   Crap, I should've ordered that replacement top cover when I had  
the chance. :-(  Does anyone here have a spare top cover for an  
original IMSAI 8080?

           -Dave

On Oct 1, 2007, at 3:36 PM, aserlanger at earthlink.net wrote:
> I had absolutely the same experience. I paid in full for a machine  
> in march
> of 2003. For a year he bs'ed me about how the machine was a few  
> months off.
> Then in june of 2004 I asked for my money back. He then went from  
> telling me
> how honorable a businessman he was, to lying about sending me a  
> refund, to
> no response at all. This man is in my opinion a liar and a fraud if  
> not
> worse. DO NOT SEND HIM MONEY NO MATTER WHAT HE CLAIMS HE CAN DO.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech- 
> bounces at classiccmp.org]
> On Behalf Of Robert Stek
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 12:22 PM
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: IMSAI II - still viable OR has anyone else lost their  
> deposit?
>
> I was an early fan of the Todd Fischer's IMSAI II project  
> (www.imsai.net)
> and sent off a deposit several years ago.  I even offered to review  
> it in
> Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar Ink (I'm a friend of Steve's and formerly  
> lived in
> Hartford).  I understand the problems of a task like re-inventing  
> the IMSAI
> and think that I have been more than patient.  His website is still  
> active,
> he has a copyright date of 2007 on it, and it appears that you can  
> still
> order not only an IMSAI II but other items as well.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately I have emailed him several times over the past 12-18  
> months
> and haven't had the courtesy of a response.  I know he's there - he  
> posts in
> comp.os.cpm - but from him to me: nada, zip, zilch, nothing.
>
>
>
> Is there anyone else on the list who was as retrospectively foolish  
> as I as
> to trust him with a deposit?  It doesn't speak much for his ethics  
> if he
> advertises and takes orders for non-existent products (who was that  
> guy and
> his company that advertised in Kilobaud, among others, back in the  
> '70's
> with full page ads for non-existent products?  Remember that?).   
> And his
> customer service skills are non-existent if he just ignores  
> politely worded
> inqueries re: progress on the product.
>
>
>
> So, am I the only one still waiting for an IMSAI II?
>
>
>
>
>
> Bob Stek
>
> Saver of Lost Sols
>
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-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007