World Power Systems scam

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Fri Oct 9 13:45:58 1998

Bob Stek wrote:
>
> Please don't confuse Morrow (a "good" guy) with the Xitan scammers. TDL
> made a Z-80 board and then some decent software, and then some Xitan
> computer systems. TDL got into trouble using some bad memory chips and had
> cash flow problems. Some "business consultants" were brought in who
> dissolved TDL and started Xitan and heavily promoted an advanced Z80 system,
> the General. They took orders and disappeared in '78. But George Morrow
> wasn't involved - he was in California, and TDL / Xitan was in New Jersey.

For those who are interested, there is a pretty good description of what
happened there in Stan Veit's "History of the Personal Computer."
Received on Fri Oct 09 1998 - 13:45:58 BST