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

[Glen Slick]

On 10/1/07, Robert Stek <robert.stek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?).

Search for "World Power Systems".  I remember those ads and that story
from back in the day.

Here's a couple of references:
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/wps/
http://polaris.umuc.edu/~fbetz/references/Ahl.html
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/1998-November/113422.html