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From: bobh@pedsgd.UUCP (Bob Halloran)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Industry scams
Message-ID: <360@pedsgd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 08:25:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 08:25:26 1985
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In article <2457@sdcrdcf.UUCP> dennisg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Dennis Griesser) writes:
>In article <9400006@uiucuxa> rp321@uiucuxa.CSO.UIUC.EDU writes:
>>
>>>If you guys can't remember back 2 years to the JRT business, it must
>>>be time for Col Winthrop to reappear.
>>
>>Who/what is Col Winthrop?
>
>I guess that it really IS time.
>
>Winthrop was the brains behind "World Power Systems", a company that offered
>sophisticated hardware at excellent prices through mail order.  He also had
>a long record of similar scams.

WPS was Winthrop's second national mail-order computer scam ; he bankrolled
THAT one with the proceeds of a scam outfit called 'DataSync'.  Same
idea; S-100 boards (in this case REEEALY small pictures in the ads) for
just a little less than most of the competition.  The unfortunates who
fell into it thought he was just undercutting the 'big guys'.  Look at
real old BYTEs et al.

					Bob Halloran
					Sr MTS, CONCURRENT Computer Corp
					(Formerly Perkin-Elmer DSG)
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