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Re: UPDATE: TWGS Clone Status



On Fri, 3 May 2013, David Schmidt wrote:

On 5/3/2013 10:50 AM, Sean Fahey wrote:
I have more info, but I'm investigating it's accuracy. I may just have to have someone visit him in person.

The person you're looking for may actually be Norman Henry Hunt or Perry Pollock. ;-)

http://www.trs-80.org/world-power-systems-fraud/

"Hello Fellow Computerist..."

"Spectacular Moments in the early history of Small Computers".

I think, though, that that was a high level scam. He got full page ads in Kilobaud, at least, and it looked legit. At the time, who would know? COmpanies were constantly starting out, so the fact that nobody had heard of them meant nothing. THe very fact that the magazine sold the ad space suggested things were okay.

  Michael