> Does
anyone recall the month and year the "World Power Systems"
> scam advertisement appeared in (was it?) Byte?
The real hoot to the thing was
that if you looked REAL close at the
pictures of the boards in the ad, you might notice that while there were
components on the boards, there were NO traces on the boards!
There were traces. There just weren't *enough* traces. And the components
were packed too densely on most of the boards they showed in the photographs.
Sure, you could make boards that dense by going multi-layer, but not for
the prices they were asking. Back then multilayer boards were very
expen$ive.
I saw these advertisements recently when I was looking up the two-part
article on implementing DES on a KIM. I'll scan them and put them on my
web site. Hey, a new service: ScamScan (TM).