Loan and Security Agreement DATED AS OF JUNE 30, 2003 BETWEEN LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION THE LENDER, WELLS-GARDNER ELECTRONICS CORPORATION AND AMERICAN GAMING & ELECTRONICS, INC. THE BORROWERS

Exhibit 10.1

Loan and Security Agreement

DATED AS OF JUNE 30, 2003

BETWEEN

LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

THE LENDER,

▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ELECTRONICS CORPORATION

AND

AMERICAN GAMING & ELECTRONICS, INC.

THE BORROWERS

LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

THIS LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, this “Agreement”) made this 30th day of June, 2003 by and among LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association (“Lender”), ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, and ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, an Illinois corporation, having its principal place of business at ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇^▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ (“WGE”) and AMERICAN GAMING & ELECTRONICS, INC., a Nevada corporation, having its principal place of business at ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇^▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇(“AGE”) (WGE and AGE are collectively referred to as “Borrowers”).

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, Borrowers may, from time to time, request Loans from Lender, and the parties wish to provide for the terms and conditions upon which such Loans or other financial accommodations, if made by Lender, shall be made;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of any Loan (including any Loan by renewal or extension) hereafter made to a Borrower by Lender, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by Borrowers, the parties agree as follows:

1. DEFINITIONS.

“Account”, “Account Debtor”, “Chattel Paper”, “Commercial Tort Claims”, “Deposit Accounts”, “Documents”, “Electronic Chattel Paper”, “Equipment”, “Fixtures”, “General Intangibles”, “Goods”, “Instruments”, “Inventory”, “Investment Property”, “Letter-of-Credit Right”, “Proceeds” and “Tangible Chattel Paper” shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Illinois Uniform Commercial Code, as the same may be in effect from time to time.

“Affiliate” shall mean any Person (i) which directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, either of the Borrowers, (ii) which beneficially owns or holds five percent (5%) or more of the voting control or equity interests of either of the Borrowers, or (iii) five percent (5%) or more of the voting control or equity interests of which is beneficially owned or held by either of the Borrowers.

“AGE Revolving Loan Limit” shall have the meaning set forth in subsection 2(a).

“Aristocrat” means Aristocrat Technologies Australia PLY Ltd. And its Subsidiaries.

“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or (i) with respect to all matters, determinations, fundings and payments in connection with LIBOR Rate

Loans, any day on which banks in London, England or Chicago, Illinois are required or permitted to close, and (ii) with respect to all other matters, any day that banks in Chicago, Illinois are required or permitted to close.

“Capital Expenditures” shall mean with respect to any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities and including expenditures for capitalized lease obligations) by Borrowers and their Subsidiaries during such period that are required by generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, to be included in or reflected by the property, plant and equipment or similar fixed asset accounts (or intangible accounts subject to amortization) on the balance sheet of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries.

“Collateral” shall mean all of the property of each Borrower described in Section 5 hereof, together with all other real or personal property of any Obligor or any other Person now or hereafter pledged to Lender to secure, either directly or indirectly, repayment of any of the Liabilities.

“EBITDA” shall mean, with respect to any period, Borrowers’ and their Subsidiaries’ net income after taxes for such period (excluding any after-tax gains or losses on the sale of assets (other than the sale of Inventory in the ordinary course of business) and excluding other after-tax extraordinary gains or losses) plus interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization for such period, plus or minus any other non-cash charges or gains which have been subtracted or added in calculating net income after taxes for such period, all on a consolidated basis.

“Eligible Account” shall mean an Account owing to a Borrower which is acceptable to Lender in its sole discretion, exercised in good faith, for lending purposes. Without limiting Lender’s discretion, Lender shall, in general, consider an Account to be an Eligible Account if it meets, and so long as it continues to meet, the following requirements:

(i) it is genuine and in all respects what it purports to be;

(ii) it is owned by such Borrower, such Borrower has the right to subject it to a security interest in favor of Lender or assign it to Lender and it is subject to a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Lender and to no other claim, lien, security interest or encumbrance whatsoever, other than Permitted Liens;

(iii) it arises from (A) the performance of services by such Borrower in the ordinary course of such Borrower’s business, and such services have been fully performed and acknowledged and accepted by the Account Debtor thereunder; or (B) the sale or lease of Goods by such Borrower in the ordinary course of such Borrower’s business, and (x) such Goods have been completed in accordance with the Account Debtor’s specifications (if any) and delivered to the Account Debtor, (y) such Account Debtor has not refused to accept, returned or offered to return, any of the Goods which are the subject of such Account, and (z) such Borrower has possession of, or such Borrower has delivered to Lender (at Lender’s request) shipping and delivery receipts evidencing delivery of such Goods;

(iv) it is evidenced by an invoice rendered to the Account Debtor thereunder, is due and payable within forty-five (45) days after the date of the invoice and does not remain unpaid sixty (60) days past the due date thereof; provided, however, that if more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the aggregate dollar amount of invoices owing by a particular Account Debtor remain unpaid sixty (60) days after the respective due dates thereof, then all Accounts owing by that Account Debtor shall be deemed ineligible;

(v) it is a valid, legally enforceable and unconditional obligation of the Account Debtor thereunder, and is not subject to setoff, counterclaim, credit, allowance or adjustment by such Account Debtor, or to any claim by such Account Debtor denying liability thereunder in whole or in part;

(vi) it does not arise out of a contract or order which fails in any material respect to comply with the requirements of applicable law;

(vii) the Account Debtor thereunder is not a director, officer, employee or agent of a Borrower, or a Subsidiary, Parent or Affiliate;

(viii) it is not an Account with respect to which the Account Debtor is the United States of America or any state or local government, or any department, agency or instrumentality thereof, unless such Borrower assigns its right to payment of such Account to Lender pursuant to, and in full compliance with, the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended, or any comparable state or local law, as applicable;

(ix) it is not an Account with respect to which the Account Debtor is located in a state which requires such Borrower, as a precondition to commencing or maintaining an action in the courts of that state, either to (A) receive a certificate of authority to do business and be in good standing in such state; or (B) file a notice of business activities report or similar report with such state’s taxing authority, unless (x) such Borrower has taken one of the actions described in clauses (A) or (B); (y) the failure to take one of the actions described in either clause (A) or (B) may be cured retroactively by such Borrower at its election; or (z) such Borrower has proven, to Lender’s satisfaction, that it is exempt from any such requirements under any such state’s laws;

(x) the Account Debtor is located within the United States of America or Canada; provided that Accounts owing by Aristocrat shall not be ineligible as a result of this clause (x);

(xi) it is not an Account with respect to which the Account Debtor’s obligation to pay is subject to any repurchase obligation or return right, as with sales made on a ▇▇▇▇-and-hold, guaranteed sale, sale on approval, sale or return or consignment basis;

(xii) it is not an Account (A) with respect to which any representation or warranty contained in this Agreement is untrue; or (B) which violates any of the covenants of such Borrower contained in this Agreement;

(xiii) it is not an Account which, when added to a particular Account Debtor’s other indebtedness to such Borrower, exceeds twenty percent (20%) of all Accounts of such Borrower or a credit limit determined by Lender in its sole discretion for that Account Debtor (except that Accounts excluded from Eligible Accounts solely by reason of this clause (xiii) shall be Eligible Accounts to the extent of such credit limit); and

(xiv) it is not an Account with respect to which the prospect of payment or performance by the Account Debtor is or will be impaired, as determined by Lender in its sole discretion exercised in good faith.

“Eligible Inventory” shall mean Inventory of a Borrower which is acceptable to Lender in its sole discretion, exercised in good faith, for lending purposes. Without limiting Lender’s discretion, Lender shall, in general, consider Inventory to be Eligible Inventory if it meets, and so long as it continues to meet, the following requirements:

(i) it is owned by such Borrower, such Borrower has the right to subject it to a security interest in favor of Lender and it is subject to a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Lender and to no other claim, lien, security interest or encumbrance whatsoever, other than Permitted Liens;

(ii) it is located on one of the premises listed on Exhibit A (or other locations of which Lender has been advised in writing pursuant to subsection 12(b)(i) hereof) and is not in transit;

(iii) if held for sale or lease or furnishing under contracts of service, it is (except as Lender may otherwise consent in writing) new and unused and free from defects which would, in Lender’s sole, good faith determination, affect its market value; provided, that Inventory that consists of previously used finished Goods which have been refurbished by the Borrowers shall not be ineligible as a result of this clause (iii);

(iv) it is not stored with a bailee, consignee, warehouseman, processor or similar party unless Lender has given its prior written approval and such Borrower has caused any such bailee, consignee, warehouseman, processor or similar party to issue and deliver to Lender, in form and substance acceptable to Lender, such Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, warehouse receipts, waivers and other documents as Lender shall require; provided, that Inventory on consignment to Aristocrat located at the Bright Mech, International PLY Ltd. warehouse in Mortlake, Australia or the Aristocrat warehouse in Australia shall not be ineligible as a result of this clause (iv) notwithstanding Borrowers’ failure to provide the necessary bailee, consignment or similar agreements necessary to perfect Lender’s lien on such Inventory and provide access to the premises as Lender shall require for thirty (30) days following the date hereof and shall remain eligible thereafter only to the extent such requirements are satisfied;

(v) Lender has determined, in accordance with Lender’s customary business practices, that it is not unacceptable due to age, type, category or quantity;

(vi) It is not work-in-progress, being inspected or being serviced;

(vii) It does not consist of gaming cores or sub-assemblies; provided, that Lender may consider certain sub-assemblies acceptable to Lender and which otherwise satisfy the criteria for Eligible Inventory to be Eligible Inventory; and

(viii) it is not Inventory (A) with respect to which any of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement are untrue; or (B) which violates any of the covenants of such Borrower contained in this Agreement.

“Environmental Laws” shall mean all federal, state, district, local and foreign laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and consent decrees relating to health, safety, hazardous substances, pollution and environmental matters, as now or at any time hereafter in effect, applicable to a Borrower’s business or facilities owned or operated by a Borrower, including laws relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of pollutants, contamination, chemicals, or hazardous, toxic or dangerous substances, materials or wastes into the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, ground water, land surface or subsurface strata) or otherwise relating to the generation, manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials.

“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, modified or restated from time to time.

“Event of Default” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15 hereof.

“Excess Availability” shall mean, as of any date of determination by Lender, the excess, if any, of the lesser of (i) the Maximum Revolving Loan Limit less the sum of the outstanding Revolving Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations and (ii) the Revolving Loan Limit less the sum of the outstanding Revolving Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations, in each case as of the close of business on such date and assuming, for purposes of calculation, that all accounts payable which remain unpaid more than sixty (60) days after the due dates thereof as the close of business on such date are treated as additional Revolving Loans outstanding on such date; provided, that payables owing to ▇▇▇▇▇ Eastern Asia Display (M) SDN GHD and ATL Electronics (M) SDN GHD which are more than sixty (60) days past due shall not be treated as additional outstanding Revolving Loans to the extent of the amount of any Accounts owing by such companies to either Borrower.

“Fiscal Year” shall mean each twelve (12) month accounting period of Borrowers, which ends on December 31 of each year.

“Hazardous Materials” shall mean any hazardous, toxic or dangerous substance, materials and wastes, including, without limitation, hydrocarbons (including naturally occurring or man-made petroleum and hydrocarbons), flammable explosives, asbestos, urea formaldehyde insulation, radioactive materials, biological substances, polychlorinated biphenyls, pesticides, herbicides and any other kind and/or type of pollutants or contaminants (including, without limitation, materials which include hazardous constituents), sewage, sludge, industrial slag, solvents and/or any other similar substances, materials, or wastes and including any other substances, materials or wastes that are or become regulated under any Environmental Law

(including, without limitation any that are or become classified as hazardous or toxic under any Environmental Law).

“Indemnified Party” shall have the meaning specified in Section 18 hereof.

“Interest Period” shall have the meaning specified in subsection 4(a)(ii) hereof.

“Letter of Credit” shall mean any Letter of Credit issued on behalf of a Borrower in accordance with this Agreement.

“Letter of Credit Obligations” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the sum of (i) the aggregate undrawn face amount of all Letters of Credit, and (ii) the aggregate unreimbursed amount of all drawn Letters of Credit not already converted to Loans hereunder.

“Liabilities” shall mean any and all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of Borrowers to Lender or to any parent, affiliate or subsidiary of Lender of any and every kind and nature, howsoever created, arising or evidenced and howsoever owned, held or acquired, whether now or hereafter existing, whether now due or to become due, whether primary, secondary, direct, indirect, absolute, contingent or otherwise (including, without limitation, obligations of performance), whether several, joint or joint and several, and whether arising or existing under written or oral agreement or by operation of law.

“LIBOR Rate” shall mean, with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loan for any Interest Period, a rate per annum equal to (a) the offered rate for deposits in United States dollars for a period equal to such Interest Period as displayed in the Bloomberg Financial Markets system (or such other authoritative source as selected by Lender in its sole discretion) as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period divided by (b) a number equal to 1.0 minus the maximum reserve percentages (expressed as a decimal fraction) including, without limitation, basic supplemental, marginal and emergency reserves under any regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or other governmental authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto, as now and from time to time in effect, for Eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of such Board) which are required to be maintained by Lender by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The LIBOR Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in such reserve percentage.

“LIBOR Rate Loans” shall mean the Loans bearing interest with reference to the LIBOR Rate.

“Loans” shall mean all loans and advances made by Lender to or on behalf of Borrowers hereunder.

“Lock Box” and “Lock Box Account” shall have the meanings specified in subsection 8(a) hereof.

“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean a material adverse effect on the business, property, assets, prospects, operations or condition, financial or otherwise, of a Person.

“Maximum Loan Limit” shall mean Twelve Million and No/100 Dollars ($12,000,000).

“Maximum Revolving Loan Limit” shall have the meaning specified in subsection 2(a) hereof.

“Obligor” shall mean Borrowers and each other Person who is or shall become primarily or secondarily liable for any of the Liabilities.

“Original Term” shall have the meaning specified in Section 10 hereof.

“Other Agreements” shall mean all agreements, instruments and documents, other than this Agreement, including, without limitation, guaranties, mortgages, trust deeds, pledges, powers of attorney, consents, assignments, contracts, notices, security agreements, leases, financing statements and all other writings heretofore, now or from time to time hereafter executed by or on behalf of a Borrower or any other Person and delivered to Lender or to any parent, affiliate or subsidiary of Lender in connection with the Liabilities or the transactions contemplated hereby, as each of the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.

“Parent” shall mean any Person now or at any time or times hereafter owning or controlling (alone or with any other Person) at least a majority of the issued and outstanding equity of a Borrower and, if a Borrower is a partnership, the general partner of such Borrower.

“PBGC” shall have the meaning specified in subsection 12(b)(v) hereof.

“Permitted Liens” shall mean (i) statutory liens of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, processors, mechanics, materialmen or suppliers incurred in the ordinary course of business and securing amounts not yet due or declared to be due by the claimant thereunder; (ii) liens or security interests in favor of Lender; (iii) zoning restrictions and easements, licenses, covenants and other restrictions affecting the use of real property that do not individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on a Borrower’s ability to use such real property for its intended purpose in connection with such Borrower’s business; (iv) liens in connection with purchase money indebtedness and capitalized leases otherwise permitted pursuant to this Agreement, provided, that such liens attach only to the assets the purchase of which was financed by such purchase money indebtedness or which is the subject of such capitalized leases; (v) liens arising out of judgments or awards against either of the Borrowers or with respect to which the applicable Borrower shall concurrently therewith be prosecuting a timely appeal or proceeding for review and with respect to which such Borrower shall have secured a stay of execution pending such appeal or proceedings for review, provided, that such judgment does not violate Section 15(i) hereof; (vi) pledges or deposits to secure obligations under worker’s compensation laws or similar legislation; (vii) good faith deposits in connection with contracts or leases to which either of the Borrowers is a party; (viii) deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of either Borrower; (ix) liens set forth on Schedule 1; and (x) liens specifically permitted by Lender in writing.

“Person” shall mean any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation, limited liability company,

institution, entity, party or foreign or United States government (whether federal, state, county, city, municipal or otherwise), including, without limitation, any instrumentality, division, agency, body or department thereof.

“Plan” shall have the meaning specified in subsection 12(b)(v) hereof.

“Prime Rate” shall mean Lender’s publicly announced prime rate (which is not intended to be Lender’s lowest or most favorable rate in effect at any time) in effect from time to time.

“Prime Rate Loans” shall mean the Loans bearing interest with reference to the Prime Rate.

“Renewal Term” shall have the meaning specified in Section 10 hereof.

“Revolving Loan Limit” shall have the meaning specified in subsection 2(a) hereof.

“Revolving Loans” shall have the meaning specified in subsection 2(a) hereof.

“Subsidiary” shall mean any corporation of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether at the time stock of any other class of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by either of the Borrowers, or any partnership, joint venture or limited liability company of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding equity interests are at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by either of the Borrowers or any partnership of which either of the Borrowers is a general partner.

“Tangible Net Worth” shall have the meaning specified in subsection 14(a) hereof.

“Tax” shall mean, in relation to any LIBOR Rate Loans and the applicable LIBOR Rate, any tax, levy, impost, duty, deduction, withholding or charges of whatever nature required to be paid by Lender and/or to be withheld or deducted from any payment otherwise required hereby to be made by either of the Borrowers to Lender; provided, that the term “Tax” shall not include any taxes imposed upon the net income of Lender.

“WGE Revolving Loan Limit” shall have the meaning specified in subsection 2(a).

2. LOANS.

a) Revolving Loans.

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Other Agreements, during the Original Term and any Renewal Term, Lender shall, so long as no Event of Default is

then continuing, make revolving loans and advances to each Borrower (the “Revolving Loans”) in an amount up to following (the “Revolving Loan Limit”):

(i) With respect to WGE (the “WGE Revolving Loan Limit”):

Eighty-five percent (85%) of the face amount (less maximum discounts, credits and allowances which may be taken by or granted to Account Debtors in connection therewith in the ordinary course of such Borrower’s business) of WGE’s Eligible Accounts; plus

Fifty percent (50%) of the lower of cost or market value of WGE’s Eligible Inventory; plus

Two Million Four Hundred Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($2,400,000) as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to subsection 2(b)(ii); minus

such reserves as Lender elects, in its sole discretion, exercised in good faith, to establish from time to time; and

(ii) With respect to AGE (the “AGE Revolving Loan Limit”):

Eighty-five percent (85%) of the face amount (less maximum discounts credits and allowances which may be taken by or granted to Account Debtors in connection therewith in the ordinary course of such Borrower’s business) of AGE’s Eligible Accounts; plus

Fifty percent (50%) of the lower of cost or market value of AGE’s Eligible Inventory; minus

Such reserves as Lender elects in its sole discretion, exercised in good faith, from time to time.

provided, that (w) advances pursuant to clauses (i)(A) and (ii)(A) above with respect to Accounts owing by Aristocrat shall at no time exceed in the aggregate Two Million and No/100 Dollars ($2,000,000) outstanding; (x) advances pursuant to clauses (i)(B) and (ii)(B) above shall at no time exceed in the aggregate Six Million and No/100 Dollars ($6,000,000) outstanding; (y) advances pursuant to clauses (i)(B) and (ii)(B) above with respect to sub-assembly Inventory which constitutes Eligible Inventory shall at no time exceed Three Hundred Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($300,000), and (z) the Revolving Loan Limit shall in no event exceed Twelve Million and No/100 Dollars ($12,000,000) (the “Maximum Revolving Loan Limit”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the advance rates, sublimits and Maximum Revolving Loan Limit may be adjusted up or down by Lender in its sole discretion, exercised in good faith, on an annual basis based on the results of Lender’s audits of the Borrowers or at any time following the occurrence of an Event of Default.

The aggregate unpaid principal balance of the Revolving Loans shall not at any time exceed the lesser of the (i) Revolving Loan Limit minus the Letter of Credit Obligations and (ii) the Maximum Revolving Loan Limit minus the Letter of Credit Obligations and the aggregate unpaid principal balance of the Revolving Loans outstanding to WGE and AGE respectively shall not at any time exceed the WGE Loan Limit minus the Letter of Credit Obligations outstanding with respect to WGE or the AGE Loan Limit minus the Letter of Credit Obligations outstanding with respect to AGE, as applicable. If at any time the outstanding Revolving Loans exceeds either the Revolving Loan Limit or the Maximum Revolving Loan Limit, in each case minus the Letter of Credit Obligations, or any portion of the Revolving Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations exceeds any applicable sublimit within the Revolving Loan Limit (including the WGE Revolving Loan Limit and the AGE Revolving Loan Limit, as applicable, Borrowers (or the applicable Borrower) shall immediately, and without the necessity of demand by Lender, pay to Lender such amount as may be necessary to eliminate such excess and Lender shall apply such payment to the Revolving Loans in such order as Lender shall determine in its sole discretion.

Each Borrower hereby authorizes Lender, in its sole discretion, to charge any of such Borrower’s accounts or advance Revolving Loans to make any payments of principal, interest, fees, costs or expenses required to be made under this Agreement or the Other Agreements.

A request for a Revolving Loan shall be made or shall be deemed to be made, each in the following manner: the Borrower requesting such Revolving Loan shall give Lender same day notice, no later than 1:00 P.M. (determined based on the local time of each Borrower at its principal place of business) for such day, of its request for a Revolving Loan as a Prime Rate Loan, and at least three (3) Business Days prior notice of its request for a Revolving Loan as a LIBOR Rate Loan, in which notice such Borrower shall specify the amount of the proposed borrowing and the proposed borrowing date; provided, however, that no such request may be made at a time when there exists an Event of Default or an event which, with the passage of time or giving of notice, will become an Event of Default. In the event that a Borrower maintains a controlled disbursement account at Lender, each check presented for payment against such controlled disbursement account and any other charge or request for payment against such controlled disbursement account shall constitute a request for a Revolving Loan as a Prime Rate Loan. As an accommodation to Borrowers, Lender may permit telephone requests for Revolving Loans and electronic transmittal of instructions, authorizations, agreements or reports to Lender by Borrowers. Unless a Borrower specifically directs Lender in writing not to accept or act upon telephonic or electronic communications from such Borrower, Lender shall have no liability to Borrowers for any loss or damage suffered by a Borrower as a result of Lender’s honoring of any requests, execution of any instructions, authorizations or agreements or reliance on any reports communicated to it telephonically or electronically and purporting to have been sent to Lender by a Borrower and Lender shall have no duty to verify the origin of any such communication or the authority of the Person sending it.

Each Borrower hereby irrevocably authorizes Lender to disburse the proceeds of each Revolving Loan requested by such Borrower, or deemed to be requested by such Borrower, as follows: the proceeds of each Revolving Loan requested under Section 2(a) shall be disbursed by Lender in lawful money of the United States of America in immediately available funds, in

the case of the initial borrowing, in accordance with the terms of the written disbursement letter from such Borrower, and in the case of each subsequent borrowing, by wire transfer or Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfer to such bank account as may be agreed upon by such Borrower and Lender from time to time, or elsewhere if pursuant to a written direction from such Borrower.

b) Repayments and Curtailments.

The Liabilities shall be repaid as follows:

(i) Repayment of Revolving Loans. The Revolving Loans and all other Liabilities shall be repaid on the last day of the Original Term or any Renewal Term if this Agreement is renewed pursuant to Section 10 hereof.

(ii) Curtailment of Certain Availability. The availability set forth in subsection 2(a)(i)(C) shall be automatically be curtailed by One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) on the 1st day of each month commencing August 1, 2003 until such availability is reduced to $0.

(iii) Mandatory Additional Curtailments.

Sales of Assets. Upon receipt of the proceeds of the sale or other disposition of any Equipment or real property of a Borrower which is subject to a mortgage in favor of Lender, or if any of the Equipment or real property subject to such mortgage is damaged, destroyed or taken by condemnation in whole or in part, the proceeds thereof shall be paid by such Borrower to Lender and, to the extent any such sale, damage, destruction or condemnation results in excess of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000), the availability set forth in subsection 2(a)(i)(C) shall be curtailed dollar-for-dollar by the amount of such proceeds, such curtailments to be applied against the remaining scheduled curtailments in the inverse order of their maturities until curtailed in full, and then against the other Liabilities (without permanently reducing availability), as determined by Lender, in its sole discretion.

c) Notes.

The Loans shall, in Lender’s sole discretion, be evidenced by one or more promissory notes in form and substance satisfactory to Lender. However, if such Loans are not so evidenced, such Loans may be evidenced solely by entries upon the books and records maintained by Lender.

3. LETTERS OF CREDIT.

a) General Terms.

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Other Agreements, during the Original Term or any Renewal Term, Lender may, in its sole discretion, from time to time issue, upon a Borrower’s request, commercial and/or standby Letters of Credit; provided, that the aggregate undrawn face amount of all such Letters of Credit shall at no time exceed Five Hundred Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($500,000). Payments made by Lender to any Person on account of any Letter of Credit shall be immediately payable to Borrowers without notice, presentment or demand and Borrowers agree that each payment made by Lender in respect of a Letter of Credit issued on behalf of such Borrower shall constitute a request by such Borrower for a Prime Rate Loan hereunder. In the event such Loan is not advanced by Lender for any reason, such reimbursement obligations shall become part of the Liabilities hereunder and shall bear interest at the rate then applicable to Prime Rate Loans until repaid. Borrowers shall remit to Lender a Letter of Credit fee equal to one percent (1.00%) per annum on the aggregate undrawn face amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding, which fee shall be payable monthly in arrears on the last Business Day of each month. Borrowers shall also pay on demand the normal and customary administrative charges of the Lender for issuance, amendment, negotiation, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit.

b) Requests for Letters of Credit.

Each Borrower shall make requests for Letters of Credit in writing at least two (2) Business Days prior to the date such Letter of Credit is to be issued. Each such request shall specify the date such Letter of Credit is to be issued, the amount thereof, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and a description of the transaction to be supported thereby. Any such notice shall be accompanied by the form of Letter of Credit requested and any application or reimbursement agreement required by the issuer of such Letter of Credit. If any term of such application or reimbursement agreement is inconsistent with this Agreement, then the provisions of this Agreement shall control to the extent of such inconsistency.

c) Obligations Absolute.

Each Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse Lender for any payments made in respect of any Letter of Credit, which obligation shall be unconditional and irrevocable and shall be paid regardless of: (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit, (ii) any amendment or waiver of or consent or departure from all or any provisions of any Letter of Credit, this Agreement or any Other Agreement, (iii) the existence of any claim, set off, defense or other right which a Borrower or any other Person may have against any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or Lender, (iv) any draft or other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid, or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (v) any payment under any Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, and (vi) any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind of the Lender or any other Person or any other event or circumstance that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a Borrower’s obligations hereunder; provided, however that the Borrowers shall not be obligated to reimburse the Lender for any wrongful payment made by Lender under a Letter of Credit issued by it as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence by Lender. It is understood and agreed by each Borrower that Lender may accept

documents that appear on their face to be in order without further investigation or inquiry, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary.

d) Expiration Dates of Letters of Credit.

The expiration date of each Letter of Credit shall be no later than the earlier of (i) one (1) year from the date of issuance and (ii) the ninetieth (90th) day after the end of the Original Term or any Renewal Term. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Letter of Credit may provide for automatic extensions of its expiration date for one or more one (1) year periods, so long as the issuer thereof has the right to terminate the Letter of Credit at the end of each one (1) year period and no extension period extends past the ninetieth (90th) day after the end of the Original Term or any Renewal Term.

4. INTEREST, FEES AND CHARGES.

a) Interest Rate.

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth below, the Loans shall bear interest at the per annum rate of interest set forth in subsection (i), (ii) or (iii) below:

(i) One-half of one percent (0.50%) per annum in excess of the Prime Rate in effect from time to time, payable on the first Business Day of each month in arrears. Said rate of interest shall increase or decrease by an amount equal to each increase or decrease in the Prime Rate effective on the effective date of each such change in the Prime Rate.

(ii) Three percent (3.00%) in excess of the LIBOR Rate for the applicable Interest Period, such rate to remain fixed for such Interest Period. “Interest Period” shall mean any continuous period of thirty (30), sixty (60) or ninety (90) days, as selected from time to time by the Borrower requesting such LIBOR Rate Loan by irrevocable notice (in writing, by telecopy, telex, electronic mail, or cable) given to Lender not less than three (3) Business Days prior to the first day of each respective Interest Period; provided, that: (A) each such period occurring after such initial period shall commence on the day on which the immediately preceding period expires; (B) the final Interest Period shall be such that its expiration occurs on or before the end of the Original Term or any Renewal Term; and (C) if for any reason a Borrower shall fail to timely select a period, then such Loans shall continue as, or revert to, Prime Rate Loans. Interest shall be payable on the last Business Day of such Interest Period.

(iii) Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default and during the continuance thereof, the Loans shall bear interest at the rate of two percent (2.0%) per annum in excess of the interest rate otherwise payable thereon, which interest shall be payable on demand. All interest shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year.

b) Other LIBOR Provisions.

(i) Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, each Borrower shall have the option (A) as of any date, to convert all or any part of the Prime Rate Loans to, or request that new Loans be made as, LIBOR Rate Loans of various Interest Periods, (B) as of the last day of any Interest Period, to continue all or any portion of the relevant LIBOR Rate Loans as LIBOR Rate Loans; (C) as of the last day of any Interest Period, to convert all or any portion of the LIBOR Rate Loans to Prime Rate Loans; and (D) at any time, to request new Loans as Prime Rate Loans; provided, that Loans may not be continued as or converted to LIBOR Rate Loans, if the continuation or conversion thereof would violate the provisions of subsections 4(b)(ii) or 4(b)(iii) of this Agreement or if an Event of Default has occurred.

(ii) Lender’s determination of the LIBOR Rate as provided above shall be conclusive, absent manifest error. Furthermore, if Lender determines, in good faith (which determination shall be conclusive, absent manifest error), prior to the commencement of any Interest Period that (A) U.S. Dollar deposits of sufficient amount and maturity for funding the Loans are not available to Lender in the London Interbank Eurodollar market in the ordinary course of business, or (B) by reason of circumstances affecting the London Interbank Eurodollar market, adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the rate of interest to be applicable to the Loans requested by a Borrower to be LIBOR Rate Loans or the Loans bearing interest at the rates set forth in subsection 4(a)(ii) of this Agreement shall not represent the effective pricing to Lender for U.S. Dollar deposits of a comparable amount for the relevant period (such as for example, but not limited to, official reserve requirements required by Regulation D to the extent not given effect in determining the rate), Lender shall promptly notify such Borrower and (1) all existing LIBOR Rate Loans shall convert to Prime Rate Loans upon the end of the applicable Interest Period, and (2) no additional LIBOR Rate Loans shall be made until such circumstances are cured.

(iii) If, after the date hereof, the introduction of, or any change in any applicable law, treaty, rule, regulation or guideline or in the interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental authority or any central bank or other fiscal, monetary or other authority having jurisdiction over Lender or its lending offices (a “Regulatory Change”), shall, in the opinion of counsel to Lender, make it unlawful for Lender to make or maintain LIBOR Rate Loans, then Lender shall promptly notify the requesting Borrower and (A) the LIBOR Rate Loans shall immediately convert to Prime Rate Loans on the last Business Day of the then existing Interest Period or on such earlier date as required by law and (B) no additional LIBOR Rate Loans shall be made until such circumstance is cured.

(iv) If, for any reason, a LIBOR Rate Loan is paid prior to the last Business Day of any Interest Period or if a LIBOR Rate Loan does not occur on a

date specified by the requesting Borrower in its request (other than as a result of a default by Lender), each Borrower agrees to indemnify Lender against any loss (including any loss on redeployment of the deposits or other funds acquired by Lender to fund or maintain such LIBOR Rate Loan) cost or expense incurred by Lender as a result of such prepayment.

(v) If any Regulatory Change (whether or not having the force of law) shall (A) impose, modify or deem applicable any assessment, reserve, special deposit or similar requirement against assets held by, or deposits in or for the account of or loans by, or any other acquisition of funds or disbursements by, Lender; (B) subject Lender or the LIBOR Rate Loans to any Tax or change the basis of taxation of payments to Lender of principal or interest due from a Borrower to Lender hereunder (other than a change in the taxation of the overall net income of Lender); or (C) impose on Lender any other condition regarding the LIBOR Rate Loans or Lender’s funding thereof, and Lender shall determine (which determination shall be conclusive, absent any manifest error) that the result of the foregoing is to increase the cost to Lender of making or maintaining the LIBOR Rate Loans or to reduce the amount of principal or interest received by Lender hereunder, then Borrowers shall pay to Lender, on demand, such additional amounts as Lender shall, from time to time, determine are sufficient to compensate and indemnify Lender from such increased cost or reduced amount.

(vi) Lender shall receive payments of amounts of principal of and interest with respect to the LIBOR Rate Loans free and clear of, and without deduction for, any Taxes. If (A) Lender shall be subject to any Tax in respect of any LIBOR Rate Loans or any part thereof or, (B) Borrowers shall be required to withhold or deduct any Tax from any such amount, the LIBOR Rate applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loans shall be adjusted by Lender to reflect all additional costs incurred by Lender in connection with the payment by Lender or the withholding by a Borrower of such Tax and Borrowers shall provide Lender with a statement detailing the amount of any such Tax actually paid by Borrowers. Determination by Lender of the amount of such costs shall be conclusive, absent manifest error. If after any such adjustment any part of any Tax paid by Lender is subsequently recovered by Lender, Lender shall reimburse Borrowers to the extent of the amount so recovered. A certificate of an officer of Lender setting forth the amount of such recovery and the basis therefor shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.

(vii) Each request for LIBOR Rate Loans shall be in an amount not less than Five Hundred Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($500,000), and in integral multiples of, One Hundred Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($100,000).

(viii) Unless otherwise specified by a Borrower, all Loans shall be Prime Rate Loans.

(ix) No more than five (5) Interest Periods may be in effect with respect to outstanding LIBOR Rate Loans at any one time.

c) Fees And Charges.

(i) Closing Fee: Borrowers shall jointly and severally pay to Lender a closing fee of One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($110,000), which fee shall be fully earned on the date of disbursement of the initial Loans hereunder and payable as follows: (x) Eighty Thousand Dollars ($80,000) on the date of disbursement of the initial Loans hereunder and (y) Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000) on the first anniversary of the date hereof.

(ii) Unused Line Fee: Borrowers shall jointly and severally pay to Lender an unused line fee of one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) of the difference between the Maximum Revolving Loan Limit and the average daily balance of the Revolving Loans plus the Letter of Credit Obligations for each month, which fee shall be fully earned by Lender and payable quarterly in arrears on the first Business Day of each calendar quarter. Said fee shall be calculated on the basis of a 360 day year.

(iii) Costs and Expenses: Borrowers shall reimburse Lender for all costs and expenses, including, without limitation, legal expenses and reasonable attorneys’ fees (whether for internal or outside counsel) incurred by Lender in connection with the (i) documentation and consummation of this transaction and any other transactions between Borrowers and Lender, including, without limitation, Uniform Commercial Code and other public record searches and filings, overnight courier or other express or messenger delivery, appraisal costs, surveys, title insurance and environmental audit or review costs; (ii) collection, protection or enforcement of any rights in or to the Collateral; (iii) collection of any Liabilities; and (iv) administration and enforcement of any of Lender’s rights under this Agreement or any Other Agreement. Borrowers shall also pay all normal service charges with respect to all accounts maintained by each Borrower with Lender and any additional services requested by a Borrower from Lender. All such costs, expenses and charges shall constitute Liabilities hereunder, shall be payable by Borrowers to Lender on demand, and, until paid, shall bear interest at the highest rate then applicable to Loans hereunder.

(iv) Capital Adequacy Charge. If Lender shall have determined that the adoption of any law, rule or regulation regarding capital adequacy, or any change therein or in the interpretation or application thereof, or compliance by Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or governmental authority enacted after the date hereof, does or shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such party’s capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder to a level below that which

Lender could have achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into consideration Lender’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) by a material amount, then from time to time, after submission by Lender to Borrowers of a written demand therefor (“Capital Adequacy Demand”) together with the certificate described below, Borrowers shall pay to Lender such additional amount or amounts (“Capital Adequacy Charge”) as will compensate Lender for such reduction, such Capital Adequacy Demand to be made with reasonable promptness following such determination. A certificate of Lender claiming entitlement to payment as set forth above shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. Such certificate shall set forth the nature of the occurrence giving rise to such reduction, the amount of the Capital Adequacy Charge to be paid to Lender, and the method by which such amount was determined. In determining such amount, Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution method, applied on a non-discriminatory basis.

d) Maximum Interest.

It is the intent of the parties that the rate of interest and other charges to each Borrower under this Agreement and the Other Agreements shall be lawful; therefore, if for any reason the interest or other charges payable under this Agreement are found by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a final determination, to exceed the limit which Lender may lawfully charge such Borrower, then the obligation to pay interest and other charges shall automatically be reduced to such limit and, if any amount in excess of such limit shall have been paid, then such amount shall be refunded to such Borrower.

5. COLLATERAL.

a) Grant of Security Interest to Lender.

As security for the payment of all Loans now or in the future made by Lender to Borrowers hereunder and for the payment or other satisfaction of all other Liabilities, each Borrower hereby assigns to Lender and grants to Lender a continuing security interest in the following property of each of the Borrowers, whether now or hereafter owned, existing, acquired or arising and wherever now or hereafter located: (a) all Accounts (whether or not Eligible Accounts) and all Goods whose sale, lease or other disposition by such Borrower has given rise to Accounts and have been returned to, or repossessed or stopped in transit by, such Borrower; (b) all Chattel Paper, Instruments, Documents and General Intangibles (including, without limitation, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, trade names, trade secrets, goodwill, copyrights, copyright applications, registrations, licenses, software, franchises, customer lists, tax refund claims, claims against carriers and shippers, guarantee claims, contract rights, payment intangibles, security interests, security deposits and rights to indemnification); (c) all Inventory (whether or not Eligible Inventory); (d) all Goods (other than Inventory), including, without limitation, Equipment, vehicles and Fixtures; (e) all Investment Property; (f) all Deposit Accounts, bank accounts, deposits and cash; (g) all Letter-of-Credit Rights; (h) Commercial Tort Claims listed on Exhibit C hereto, (i) any other property of such Borrower now or hereafter in the possession, custody or control of Lender or any agent or any parent,

affiliate or subsidiary of Lender or any participant with Lender in the Loans, for any purpose (whether for safekeeping, deposit, collection, custody, pledge, transmission or otherwise) and (j) all additions and accessions to, substitutions for, and replacements, products and Proceeds of the foregoing property, including, without limitation, proceeds of all insurance policies insuring the foregoing property, and all of the Borrowers’ books and records relating to any of the foregoing and to the Borrowers’ businesses.

b) Other Security.

Lender, in its sole discretion, without waiving or releasing any obligation, liability or duty of Borrowers under this Agreement or the Other Agreements or any Event of Default, may at any time or times hereafter, but shall not be obligated to, pay, acquire or accept an assignment of any security interest, lien, encumbrance or claim asserted by any Person in, upon or against the Collateral. All sums paid by Lender in respect thereof and all costs, fees and expenses including, without limitation, reasonable attorney fees, all court costs and all other charges relating thereto incurred by Lender shall constitute Liabilities, payable by Borrowers to Lender on demand and, until paid, shall bear interest at the highest rate then applicable to Loans hereunder.

c) Possessory Collateral.

Immediately upon receipt by either Borrower of any portion of the Collateral evidenced by an agreement, Instrument or Document, including, without limitation, any Tangible Chattel Paper and any Investment Property consisting of certificated securities, such Borrower shall deliver the original thereof to Lender together with an appropriate endorsement or other specific evidence of assignment thereof to Lender (in form and substance acceptable to Lender). If an endorsement or assignment of any such items shall not be made for any reason, Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized, as each Borrower’s attorney and agent-in-fact, to endorse or assign the same on such Borrower’s behalf.

d) Electronic Chattel Paper.

To the extent that either Borrower obtains or maintains any Electronic Chattel Paper, such Borrower shall create, store and assign the record or records comprising the Electronic Chattel Paper in such a manner that (i) a single authoritative copy of the record or records exists which is unique, identifiable and except as otherwise provided in clauses (iv), (v) and (vi) below, unalterable, (ii) the authoritative copy identifies Lender as the assignee of the record or records, (iii) the authoritative copy is communicated to and maintained by the Lender or its designated custodian, (iv) copies or revisions that add or change an identified assignee of the authoritative copy can only be made with the participation of Lender, (v) each copy of the authoritative copy and any copy of a copy is readily identifiable as a copy that is not the authoritative copy and (vi) any revision of the authoritative copy is readily identifiable as an authorized or unauthorized revision.

6. PRESERVATION OF COLLATERAL AND PERFECTION OF SECURITY INTERESTS THEREIN.

Each of the Borrowers shall, at Lender’s request, at any time and from time to time, authenticate, execute and deliver to Lender such financing statements, documents and other agreements and instruments (and pay the cost of filing or recording the same in all public offices deemed necessary or desirable by Lender) and do such other acts and things or cause third parties to do such other acts and things as Lender may deem necessary or desirable in its sole discretion in order to establish and maintain a valid, attached and perfected security interest in the Collateral in favor of Lender (free and clear of all other liens, claims, encumbrances and rights of third parties whatsoever, whether voluntarily or involuntarily created, except Permitted Liens) to secure payment of the Liabilities, and in order to facilitate the collection of the Collateral. Each of the Borrowers irrevocably hereby make, constitute and appoint Lender (and all Persons designated by Lender for that purpose) as such Borrower’s true and lawful attorney and agent-in-fact to execute and file such financing statements, documents and other agreements and instruments and do such other acts and things as may be necessary to preserve and perfect Lender’s security interest in the Collateral. Each of the Borrowers further agree that a carbon, photographic, photostatic or other reproduction of this Agreement or of a financing statement shall be sufficient as a financing statement, each of the Borrowers further ratify and confirm the prior filing by Lender of any and all financing statements which identify either of the Borrowers as debtor, Lender as secured party and any or all Collateral as collateral.

7. POSSESSION OF COLLATERAL AND RELATED MATTERS.

Until an Event of Default has occurred, each Borrower shall have the right, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, in the ordinary course of such Borrower’s business, to (a) sell, lease or furnish under contracts of service any of such Borrower’s Inventory normally held by such Borrower for any such purpose; and (b) use and consume any raw materials, work in process or other materials normally held by such Borrower for such purpose; provided, however, that a sale in the ordinary course of business shall not include any transfer or sale in satisfaction, partial or complete, of a debt owed by such Borrower.

8. COLLECTIONS.

(a) Each Borrower shall direct all of its Account Debtors to make all payments on the Accounts directly to a post office box (the “Lock Box”) designated by, and under the exclusive control of, Lender, at Lender. Each Borrower shall establish an account (the “Lock Box Account”) in Lender’s name with Lender, into which all payments received in the Lock Box shall be deposited, and into which such Borrower will immediately deposit all payments received by such Borrower on Accounts in the identical form in which such payments were received, whether by cash or check. If a Borrower, any Affiliate or Subsidiary, any shareholder, officer, director, employee or agent of a Borrower or any Affiliate or Subsidiary, or any other Person acting for or in concert with a Borrower shall receive any monies, checks, notes, drafts or other payments relating to or as Proceeds of Accounts or other Collateral, such Borrower and each such Person shall receive all such items in trust for, and as the sole and exclusive property of, Lender and, immediately upon receipt thereof, shall remit the same (or cause the same to be remitted) in kind to the Lock Box Account. Each Borrower agrees that all payments made to such Lock Box Account or otherwise received by Lender, whether in respect of the Accounts or as Proceeds of other Collateral or otherwise, will be applied on account of the Liabilities in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; provided, that so long as no Event of

Default has occurred, payments received by Lender shall not be applied to the unmatured portion of the LIBOR Rate Loans, but shall be held in an interest bearing cash collateral account maintained by Lender, until the earlier of (i) the last Business Day of the Interest Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan and (ii) the occurrence of an Event of Default; provided, further, that so long as no Event of Default has occurred, the immediately available funds in such cash collateral account may be disbursed, at such Borrower’s discretion, to such Borrower so long as after giving effect to such disbursement, such Borrower’s availability under subsection 2(a) hereof at such time, equals or exceeds the outstanding Revolving Loans at such time. Each Borrower agrees to pay all fees, costs and expenses in connection with opening and maintaining the Lock Box and Lock Box Account. All of such fees, costs and expenses if not paid by a Borrower, may be paid by Lender and in such event all amounts paid by Lender shall constitute Liabilities hereunder, shall be payable to Lender by Borrowers upon demand, and, until paid, shall bear interest at the highest rate then applicable to Loans hereunder. All checks, drafts, instruments and other items of payment or Proceeds of Collateral shall be endorsed by the applicable Borrower to Lender, and, if that endorsement of any such item shall not be made for any reason, Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized to endorse the same on such Borrower’s behalf. For the purpose of this section, each Borrower irrevocably hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Lender (and all Persons designated by Lender for that purpose) as such Borrower’s true and lawful attorney and agent-in-fact (i) to endorse such Borrower’s name upon said items of payment and/or Proceeds of Collateral and upon any Chattel Paper, Document, Instrument, invoice or similar document or agreement relating to any Account of such Borrower or Goods pertaining thereto; (ii) to take control in any manner of any item of payment or Proceeds thereof and (iii) to have access to any lock box or postal box into which any of such Borrower’s mail is deposited, and open and process all mail addressed to such Borrower and deposited therein.

(b) Lender may, at any time and from time to time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, whether before or after notification to any Account Debtor and whether before or after the maturity of any of the Liabilities, (i) enforce collection of any of Borrowers’ Accounts or other amounts owed to a Borrower by suit or otherwise; (ii) exercise all of such Borrower’s rights and remedies with respect to proceedings brought to collect any Accounts or other amounts owed to such Borrower; (iii) surrender, release or exchange all or any part of any Accounts or other amounts owed to such Borrower, or compromise or extend or renew for any period (whether or not longer than the original period) any indebtedness thereunder; (iv) sell or assign any Account of such Borrower or other amount owed to such Borrower upon such terms, for such amount and at such time or times as Lender deems advisable; (v) prepare, file and sign such Borrower’s name on any proof of claim in bankruptcy or other similar document against any Account Debtor or other Person obligated to such Borrower; and (vi) do all other acts and things which are necessary, in Lender’s sole discretion, to fulfill such Borrower’s obligations under this Agreement and the Other Agreements and to allow Lender to collect the Accounts or other amounts owed to such Borrower. In addition to any other provision hereof, Lender may at any time, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, at Borrowers’ expense, notify any parties obligated on any of the Accounts to make payment directly to Lender of any amounts due or to become due thereunder.

(c) For purposes of calculating interest and fees, Lender shall, within two (2) Business Days after receipt by Lender at its office in Chicago, Illinois of (i) checks and (ii) cash

or other immediately available funds from collections of items of payment and Proceeds of any Collateral, apply the whole or any part of such collections or Proceeds against the Liabilities in such order as Lender shall determine in its sole discretion. For purposes of determining the amount of Loans available for borrowing purposes, checks and cash or other immediately available funds from collections of items of payment and Proceeds of any Collateral shall be applied in whole or in part against the Liabilities, in such order as Lender shall determine in its sole discretion, on the day of receipt, subject to actual collection.

(d) On a monthly basis, Lender shall deliver to Borrowers an account statement showing all Loans, charges and payments, which shall be deemed final, binding and conclusive upon Borrowers unless a Borrower notifies Lender in writing, specifying any error therein, within thirty (30) days of the date such account statement is sent to Borrowers and any such notice shall only constitute an objection to the items specifically identified.

9. COLLATERAL, AVAILABILITY AND FINANCIAL REPORTS AND SCHEDULES.

a) Weekly/Monthly Reports.

Borrowers shall deliver to Lender consolidated and consolidating executed loan reports and certificates in Lender’s then current form, (i) within fifteen (15) days after the end of each month so long as Excess Availability of Borrowers on a consolidated basis is equal to or exceeds Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), and (ii) on Monday of each week at all times that Excess Availability of Borrowers on a consolidated basis is less than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), such reports to be accompanied by copies of each Borrower’s sales journal, cash receipts journal and credit memo journal for the relevant period. Such reports shall reflect the activity of each Borrower with respect to Accounts for the immediately preceding month or week, as applicable, and shall be in a form and with such specificity as is reasonably satisfactory to Lender and shall contain such additional information concerning Accounts and Inventory as may be reasonably requested by Lender including, without limitation, but only if specifically requested by Lender, copies of all invoices prepared in connection with such Accounts.

b) Additional Monthly Reports.

Borrowers shall deliver to Lender, in addition to any other reports, as soon as practicable and in any event: (i) within fifteen (15) days after the end of each month, (A) a detailed trial balance of each Borrower’s Accounts aged per invoice date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lender including, without limitation, the names and addresses of all Account Debtors of each Borrower, and (B) a detailed report of accounts payable (such Accounts and accounts payable divided into such time intervals as Lender may require in its sole and reasonable discretion), including a listing of any held checks; and (ii) within fifteen (15) days after the end of each month, the general ledger inventory account balance, a perpetual inventory report and Lender’s standard form of Inventory report then in effect or the form most recently requested from Borrowers by Lender, for each Borrower by each category of Inventory, together with a description of the monthly change in each category of Inventory.

c) Financial Statements.

Borrowers shall deliver to Lender the following financial information, all of which shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied: (i) no later than thirty (30) days after each calendar month, copies of internally prepared financial statements, including, without limitation, balance sheets and statements of income of Borrowers on a consolidated and consolidating basis, certified by the Chief Financial Officer or Controller of each Borrower; and (ii) no later than one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each of Borrowers’ Fiscal Years, audited annual financial statements with an unqualified opinion by independent certified public accountants selected by Borrowers and reasonably satisfactory to Lender, which financial statements shall be accompanied by copies of any management letters sent to a Borrower by such accountants. In addition, Borrowers shall deliver to Lender a Compliance Certificate in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto, which Compliance Certificate shall include a calculation of all financial covenants contained in this Agreement, on a quarterly basis, within thirty (30) days after the end of each calendar quarter.

d) Annual Projections.

As soon as practicable and in any event prior to the beginning of each Fiscal Year, Borrowers shall deliver to Lender projected balance sheets, statements of income and cash flow for Borrowers on a consolidated and consolidating basis, for each of the twelve (12) months during such Fiscal Year, which shall include the assumptions used therein, together with appropriate supporting details as reasonably requested by Lender.

e) Explanation of Budgets and Projections.

In conjunction with the delivery of the annual presentation of projections or budgets referred to in subsection 9(d) above, Borrowers shall deliver a letter signed by the President or a Vice President of each Borrower and by the Treasurer or Chief Financial Officer of each Borrower, describing, comparing and analyzing, in detail, all changes and developments between the anticipated financial results included in such projections or budgets and the historical financial statements of Borrowers in the same form such information is provided to the Board of Directors of Borrowers.

f) Public Reporting.

Promptly upon the filing thereof, each Borrower shall deliver to Lender copies of all registration statements and annual, quarterly, monthly or other regular reports which such Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as promptly providing to Lender copies of any reports and proxy statements delivered to its shareholders.

g) Other Information.

Promptly following request therefor by Lender, such other business or financial data, reports, appraisals and projections as Lender may reasonably request.

10. TERMINATION; AUTOMATIC RENEWAL.

THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE IN EFFECT FROM THE DATE HEREOF UNTIL JUNE 30, 2006 (THE “ORIGINAL TERM”) AND SHALL AUTOMATICALLY RENEW ITSELF FROM YEAR TO YEAR THEREAFTER (EACH SUCH ONE-YEAR RENEWAL BEING REFERRED TO HEREIN AS A “RENEWAL TERM”) UNLESS (A) LENDER ELECTS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT AT THE END OF THE ORIGINAL TERM OR ANY RENEWAL TERM BY PROVIDING BORROWERS WITH WRITTEN NOTICE OF SUCH ELECTION AT LEAST THIRTY (30) DAYS PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF THE ORIGINAL TERM OR AT THE END OF ANY RENEWAL TERM; (B) THE DUE DATE OF THE LIABILITIES IS ACCELERATED PURSUANT TO SECTION 16 HEREOF; OR (C) A BORROWER ELECTS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT AT THE END OF THE ORIGINAL TERM OR AT THE END OF ANY RENEWAL TERM BY GIVING LENDER WRITTEN NOTICE OF SUCH ELECTION AT LEAST THIRTY (30) DAYS PRIOR TO THE END OF THE ORIGINAL TERM OR THE THEN CURRENT RENEWAL TERM AND BY PAYING ALL OF THE LIABILITIES IN FULL ON THE LAST DAY OF SUCH TERM (INCLUDING PROVIDING CASH COLLATERAL FOR ANY OUTSTANDING UNDRAWN LETTERS OF CREDIT IN AN AMOUNT ACCEPTABLE TO LENDER, BUT IN NO EVENT LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED FIVE PERCENT (105%) OF THE UNDRAWN FACE AMOUNT OF SUCH LETTERS OF CREDIT). If one or more of the events specified in clauses (A), (B) and (C) occurs or this Agreement otherwise expires, then (i) Lender shall not make any additional Loans on or after the date identified as the date on which the Liabilities are to be repaid; and (ii) this Agreement shall terminate on the date thereafter that the Liabilities are paid in full. At such time as Borrowers have repaid all of the Liabilities (or provided cash collateral with respect to outstanding Letters of Credit as described above) and this Agreement has terminated, if Borrowers are obtaining new financing from another lender, Borrowers shall deliver such lender’s indemnification of Lender, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lender, for checks which Lender has credited to such Borrower’s account, but which subsequently are dishonored for any reason or for automatic clearinghouse or wire transfers not yet posted to such Borrower’s account.

11. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.

Each Borrower hereby represents and warrants to Lender, which representations and warranties (whether appearing in this Section 11 or elsewhere) shall be true at the time of Borrowers’ execution hereof and the closing of the transactions described herein or related hereto, shall remain true until the repayment in full and satisfaction of all the Liabilities and termination of this Agreement (except to the extent that such representation and warranty relates to a specific date or dates in which event such representations and warranties shall remain true as of such date or dates), and shall be remade by each Borrower at the time each Loan is made pursuant to this Agreement.

a) Financial Statements and Other Information.

The financial statements and other information delivered or to be delivered by Borrowers to Lender at or prior to the date of this Agreement accurately reflect the financial condition of Borrowers, and there has been no material adverse change in the financial condition, the operations or any other status of either of the Borrowers since the date of the financial

statements delivered to Lender most recently prior to the date of this Agreement. All written information now or heretofore furnished by each Borrower to Lender is true and correct in all material respects as of the date with respect to which such information was furnished.

b) Locations.

The office where each Borrower keeps its books, records and accounts (or copies thereof) concerning the Collateral, each Borrower’s principal place of business and all of each Borrower’s other places of business, locations of Collateral and post office boxes and locations of bank accounts are as set forth in Exhibit A and at other locations within the continental United States (and Australia, with respect to Inventory stored for purposes of sale to Aristocrat) of which Lender has been advised by a Borrower in accordance with subsection 12(b)(i). The Collateral, including, without limitation, the Equipment (except any part thereof which a Borrower shall have advised Lender in writing consists of Collateral normally used in more than one state) is kept, or, in the case of vehicles, based, only at the addresses set forth on Exhibit A, and at other locations within the continental United States (and Australia, with respect to Inventory stored for purposes of sale to Aristocrat) of which Lender has been advised by a Borrower in writing in accordance with subsection 12(b)(i) hereof.

c) Loans by Borrower.

Neither of the Borrowers have made any loans or advances to any Affiliate or other Person except for advances authorized hereunder to employees, officers and directors of such Borrower for travel and other expenses arising in the ordinary course of such Borrower’s business.

d) Accounts and Inventory.

Each Account or item of Inventory which either Borrower shall, expressly or by implication, request Lender to classify as an Eligible Account or as Eligible Inventory, respectively, shall, as of the time when such request is made, conform in all respects to the requirements of such classification as set forth in the respective definitions of “Eligible Account” and “Eligible Inventory” as set forth herein and as otherwise established by Lender from time to time.

e) Liens.

Each Borrower is the lawful owner of all Collateral now purportedly owned or hereafter purportedly acquired by such Borrower, free from all liens, claims, security interests and encumbrances whatsoever, whether voluntarily or involuntarily created and whether or not perfected, other than the Permitted Liens.

f) Organization, Authority and No Conflict.

WGE is a corporation, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing in the State of Illinois, its state organizational identification number is 18348551 and such Borrower is duly qualified and in good standing in all states where the failure to be qualified and in good standing would have a Material Adverse Effect. AGE is a corporation, duly organized,

validly existing and in good standing in the State of Nevada, its state organizational identification number is C29604-1999 and such Borrower is duly qualified and in good standing in all states where the failure to be qualified and in good standing would have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Borrower has the right and power and is duly authorized and empowered to enter into, execute and deliver this Agreement and the Other Agreements and perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder. Each Borrower’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Other Agreements does not conflict with the provisions of the organizational documents of such Borrower, any statute, regulation, ordinance or rule of law, or any agreement, contract or other document which is binding on such Borrower, and each Borrower’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Other Agreements shall not result in the imposition of any lien or other encumbrance upon any of such Borrower’s property under any existing indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement or other agreement or instrument by which such Borrower or any of its property may be bound or affected (other than a lien in favor of the Lender).

g) Litigation.

There are no actions or proceedings which are pending or threatened against a Borrower which might have a Material Adverse Effect on such Borrower, and each Borrower shall, promptly upon becoming aware of any such pending or threatened action or proceeding, give written notice thereof to Lender. No Borrower has any Commercial Tort Claims pending other than those set forth on Exhibit C hereto as Exhibit C may be amended from time to time.

h) Compliance with Laws and Maintenance of Permits.

Each Borrower has obtained all governmental consents, franchises, certificates, licenses, authorizations, approvals and permits, the lack of which would have a Material Adverse Effect on such Borrower. Each Borrower is in compliance in all material respects with all applicable federal, state, local and foreign statutes, orders, regulations, rules and ordinances (including, without limitation, Environmental Laws and statutes, orders, regulations, rules and ordinances relating to taxes, employer and employee contributions and similar items, securities, ERISA or employee health and safety) the failure to comply with which would have a Material Adverse Effect on such Borrower.

i) Affiliate Transactions.

Except as set forth on Schedule 11(i) hereto or as permitted pursuant to subsection 11(c) hereof, no Borrower is conducting, permitting or suffering to be conducted, transactions with any Affiliate other than transactions with Affiliates for the purchase or sale of Inventory or services in the ordinary course of business pursuant to terms that are no less favorable to such Borrower than the terms upon which such transactions would have been made had they been made to or with a Person that is not an Affiliate.

j) Names and Trade Names.

Except as set forth in Schedule 11(j) hereto, each Borrower’s name has always been as set forth on the first page of this Agreement and no Borrower uses trade names, assumed

names, fictitious names or division names in the operation of its business, except as set forth on Schedule 11(j) hereto.

k) Equipment.

Each Borrower has good and indefeasible and merchantable title to and ownership of all Equipment. No Equipment is a Fixture to real estate unless such real estate is owned by such Borrower and is subject to a mortgage in favor of Lender, or if such real estate is leased, is subject to a landlord’s agreement in favor of Lender on terms acceptable to Lender, or an accession to other personal property unless such personal property is subject to a first priority lien in favor of Lender.

l) Enforceability.

This Agreement and the Other Agreements to which either of the Borrowers is a party are the legal, valid and binding obligations of such Borrower and are enforceable against such Borrower in accordance with their respective terms.

m) Solvency.

Each Borrower is, after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby, solvent, able to pay its debts as they become due, has capital sufficient to carry on its business, now owns property having a value both at fair valuation and at present fair saleable value greater than the amount required to pay its debts, and will not be rendered insolvent by the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any of the Other Agreements or by completion of the transactions contemplated hereunder or thereunder.

n) Indebtedness.

Except as set forth on Schedule 11(n) hereto, no Borrower is obligated (directly or indirectly), for any loans or other indebtedness for borrowed money other than the Loans.

o) Margin Security and Use of Proceeds.

Neither of the Borrowers own any margin securities, and none of the proceeds of the Loans hereunder shall be used for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin securities or for the purpose of reducing or retiring any indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase any margin securities or for any other purpose not permitted by Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as in effect from time to time.

p) Parent, Subsidiaries and Affiliates.

Except as set forth on Schedule 11(p) hereto, neither of the Borrowers has any Parents, Subsidiaries or other Affiliates or divisions, nor is any Borrower engaged in any joint venture or partnership with any other Person.

q) No Defaults.

Neither of the Borrowers are in default under any material contract, lease or commitment to which it is a party or by which it is bound, nor does any Borrower know of any dispute regarding any contract, lease or commitment which would have a Material Adverse Effect on such Borrower.

r) Employee Matters.

There are no controversies pending or threatened between either of the Borrowers and any of their respective employees, agents or independent contractors other than employee grievances arising in the ordinary course of business which would not, in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on such Borrower, and each Borrower is in compliance with all federal and state laws respecting employment and employment terms, conditions and practices except for such non-compliance which would not have a Material Adverse Effect on such Borrower.

s) Intellectual Property.

Each Borrower possesses adequate licenses, patents, patent applications, copyrights, service marks, trademarks, trademark applications, trade styles and trade names to continue to conduct its business as heretofore conducted by it.

t) Environmental Matters.

No Borrower has generated, used, stored, treated, transported, manufactured, handled, produced or disposed of any Hazardous Materials, on or off its premises (whether or not owned by it) in any manner which at any time violates any Environmental Law or any license, permit, certificate, approval or similar authorization thereunder and the operations of each Borrower comply in all material respects with all Environmental Laws and all licenses, permits, certificates, approvals and similar authorizations thereunder. There has been no investigation, proceeding, complaint, order, directive, claim, citation or notice by any governmental authority or any other Person, nor is any pending or, to the best of each Borrower’s knowledge threatened with respect to any non-compliance with or violation of the requirements of any Environmental Law by either of the Borrowers or the release, spill or discharge, threatened or actual, of any Hazardous Materials or the generation, use, storage, treatment, transportation, manufacture, handling, production or disposal of any Hazardous Materials or any other environmental, health or safety matter, which affects a Borrower or its business, operations or assets or any properties at which either of the Borrowers has transported, stored or disposed of any Hazardous Materials. Neither of the Borrowers has any material liability (contingent or otherwise) in connection with a release, spill or discharge, threatened or actual, of any Hazardous Materials or the generation, use, storage, treatment, transportation, manufacture, handling, production or disposal of any Hazardous Materials.

u) ERISA Matters.

Each Borrower has paid and discharged all obligations and liabilities arising under ERISA of a character which, if unpaid or unperformed, might result in the imposition of a lien against any of its properties or assets.

12. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS.

Until payment and satisfaction in full of all Liabilities and termination of this Agreement, unless Borrowers obtain Lender’s prior written consent waiving or modifying any of Borrowers’ covenants hereunder in any specific instance, each Borrower covenants and agrees as follows:

a) Maintenance of Records.

Each Borrower shall at all times keep accurate and complete books, records and accounts with respect to all of such Borrower’s business activities, in accordance with sound accounting practices and generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied, and shall keep such books, records and accounts, and any copies thereof, only at the addresses indicated for such purpose on Exhibit A or any such addresses disclosed to Lender by Borrowers from time to time.

b) Notices.

Each Borrower shall:

(i) Locations. Promptly (but in no event less than ten (10) days prior to the occurrence thereof) notify Lender of the proposed opening of any new place of business or new location of Collateral, the closing of any existing place of business or location of Collateral, any change in the location of such Borrower’s books, records and accounts (or copies thereof), the opening or closing of any post office box, the opening or closing of any bank account or, if any of the Collateral consists of Goods of a type normally used in more than one state, the use of any such Goods in any state other than a state in which such Borrower has previously advised Lender that such Goods will be used.

(ii) Eligible Accounts and Inventory. Promptly upon becoming aware thereof, notify Lender if any Account or Inventory identified by such Borrower to Lender as an Eligible Account or Eligible Inventory becomes ineligible for any reason.

(iii) Litigation and Proceedings. Promptly upon becoming aware thereof, notify Lender of any actions or proceedings which are pending or threatened against such Borrower which might have a Material Adverse Effect on such Borrower and of any Commercial Tort Claims of such Borrower which may arise, which notice shall constitute such Borrower’s authorization to amend Exhibit C to add such Commercial Tort Claim.

(iv) Names and Trade Names. Notify Lender within ten (10) days of the change of its name or the use of any trade name, assumed name, fictitious name or division name not previously disclosed to Lender in writing.

(v) ERISA Matters. Promptly notify Lender of (x) the occurrence of any “reportable event” (as defined in ERISA) which might result in the termination by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the “PBGC”) of

any employee benefit plan (“Plan”) covering any officers or employees of such Borrower, any benefits of which are, or are required to be, guaranteed by the PBGC, (y) receipt of any notice from the PBGC of its intention to seek termination of any Plan or appointment of a trustee therefor or (z) its intention to terminate or withdraw from any Plan.

(vi) Environmental Matters. Immediately notify Lender upon becoming aware of any investigation, proceeding, complaint, order, directive, claim, citation or notice with respect to any non-compliance with or violation of the requirements of any Environmental Law by such Borrower or the generation, use, storage, treatment, transportation, manufacture handling, production or disposal of any Hazardous Materials or any other environmental, health or safety matter which affects such Borrower or its business operations or assets or any properties at which such Borrower has transported, stored or disposed of any Hazardous Materials.

(vii) Default; Material Adverse Change. Promptly advise Lender of any change in the business, property, assets, prospects, operations or condition, financial or otherwise, of such Borrower, which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect upon such Borrower; the occurrence of any Event of Default hereunder or the occurrence of any event which, if uncured, will become an Event of Default after notice or lapse of time (or both).

All of the foregoing notices shall be provided by Borrowers to Lender in writing.

c) Compliance with Laws and Maintenance of Permits.

Each Borrower shall maintain all governmental consents, franchises, certificates, licenses, authorizations, approvals and permits, the lack of which would have a Material Adverse Effect on such Borrower and each Borrower shall remain in compliance with all applicable federal, state, local and foreign statutes, orders, regulations, rules and ordinances (including, without limitation, Environmental Laws and statutes, orders, regulations, rules and ordinances relating to taxes, employer and employee contributions and similar items, securities, ERISA or employee health and safety), the failure with which to comply would have a Material Adverse Effect on such Borrower. Following any determination by Lender that there is non-compliance, or any condition which requires any action by or on behalf of either Borrower in order to avoid non-compliance, with any Environmental Law, at such Borrower’s expense cause an independent environmental engineer acceptable to Lender to conduct such tests of the relevant site(s) as are appropriate and prepare and deliver a report setting forth the results of such tests, a proposed plan for remediation and an estimate of the costs thereof.

d) Inspection and Audits.

Each Borrower shall permit Lender, or any Persons designated by Lender, to call at such Borrower’s places of business at any reasonable times, and, without hindrance or delay but upon at least five (5) days prior written notice to such Borrower unless an Event of Default is

continuing in which case no prior notice is required, to inspect the Collateral and to inspect, audit, check and make extracts from such Borrower’s books, records, journals, orders, receipts and any correspondence and other data relating to such Borrower’s business, the Collateral or any transactions between the parties hereto, and shall have the right to make such verification concerning such Borrower’s business as Lender may consider reasonable under the circumstances. Each Borrower shall furnish to Lender such information relevant to Lender’s rights under this Agreement and the Other Agreements as Lender shall at any time and from time to time reasonably request. Each Borrower authorizes Lender to discuss the affairs, finances and business of such Borrower with any officers, employees or directors of such Borrower or with its Parent or any Affiliate or the officers, employees or directors of its Parent or any Affiliate, and to discuss the financial condition of such Borrower with such Borrower’s independent public accountants, provided, that contact and discussion with employees who are not officers or directors of either Borrower shall only be permitted (i) in the ordinary course during any audit or inspection of Borrowers by Lender, (ii) following the occurrence of an Event of Default and (iii) in all other cases following five (5) days prior notice to an officer of either Borrower. Any such discussions shall be without liability to Lender or to Borrowers’ independent public accountants. Borrowers shall pay to Lender all customary fees and all costs and out-of-pocket expenses incurred by Lender in the exercise of its rights hereunder, and all of such fees, costs and expenses shall constitute Liabilities hereunder, shall be payable on demand and, until paid, shall bear interest at the highest rate then applicable to Loans hereunder; provided, that if no Event of Default has occurred or is continuing, Borrowers’ obligations with respect to such fees, costs and expenses shall not exceed Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000) plus all out-of-pocket costs and expenses in any calendar year.

e) Insurance.

Each Borrower shall:

(i) Keep the Collateral properly housed and insured for the full insurable value thereof against loss or damage by fire, theft, explosion, sprinklers, collision (in the case of motor vehicles) and such other risks as are customarily insured against by Persons engaged in businesses similar to that of such Borrower, with such companies, in such amounts, with such deductibles, and under policies in such form, as shall be satisfactory to Lender. Original (or certified) copies of such policies of insurance have been or shall be, delivered to Lender upon request by Lender, together with evidence of payment of all premiums therefor, and shall contain an endorsement, in form and substance acceptable to Lender, showing loss under such insurance policies payable to Lender. Such endorsement, or an independent instrument furnished to Lender, shall provide that the insurance company shall give Lender at least thirty (30) days written notice before any such policy of insurance is altered or canceled and that no act, whether willful or negligent, or default of such Borrower or any other Person shall affect the right of Lender to recover under such policy of insurance in case of loss or damage. In addition, each Borrower shall cause to be executed and delivered to Lender an assignment of proceeds of its business interruption insurance policies. Each Borrower hereby directs

all insurers under all policies of insurance to pay all proceeds payable thereunder directly to Lender. Lender shall promptly notify Borrower of the receipt by Lender of any such insurance proceeds. Each Borrower irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints Lender (and all officers, employees or agents designated by Lender) as such Borrower’s true and lawful attorney (and agent-in-fact) for the purpose of making, settling and adjusting claims under such policies of insurance, endorsing the name of such Borrower on any check, draft, instrument or other item of payment for the proceeds of such policies of insurance and making all determinations and decisions with respect to such policies of insurance.

(ii) Maintain, at its expense, such public liability and third party property damage insurance as is customary for Persons engaged in businesses similar to that of such Borrower with such companies and in such amounts, with such deductibles and under policies in such form as shall be satisfactory to Lender and original (or certified) copies of such policies have been or shall be delivered to Lender upon request by Lender, together with evidence of payment of all premiums therefor; each such policy shall contain an endorsement showing Lender as additional insured thereunder and providing that the insurance company shall give Lender at least thirty (30) days written notice before any such policy shall be altered or canceled.

If a Borrower at any time or times hereafter shall fail to obtain or maintain any of the policies of insurance required above or to pay any premium relating thereto, then Lender, without waiving or releasing any obligation or default by Borrowers hereunder, may (but shall be under no obligation to) obtain and maintain such policies of insurance and pay such premiums and take such other actions with respect thereto as Lender deems advisable. Such insurance, if obtained by Lender, may, but need not, protect such Borrower’s interests or pay any claim made by or against such Borrower with respect to the Collateral. Such insurance may be more expensive than the cost of insurance such Borrower may be able to obtain on its own and may be cancelled only upon such Borrower providing evidence that it has obtained the insurance as required above. All sums disbursed by Lender in connection with any such actions, including, without limitation, court costs, expenses, other charges relating thereto and reasonable attorneys’ fees, shall constitute Loans hereunder, shall be payable on demand by Borrowers to Lender and, until paid, shall bear interest at the highest rate then applicable to Loans hereunder.

f) Collateral.

Each Borrower shall keep the Collateral in good condition, repair and order (normal wear and tear expected) and shall make all necessary repairs to the Equipment and replacements thereof so that the operating efficiency and the value thereof shall at all times be preserved and maintained. Each Borrower shall permit Lender to examine any of the Collateral at any time and wherever the Collateral may be located at all reasonable times and upon receipt of at least five (5) days prior written notice of such inspection unless an Event of Default is continuing, in which event no prior notice shall be required, and, each Borrower shall, immediately upon request therefor by Lender, deliver to Lender any and all evidence of

ownership of any of the Equipment including, without limitation, certificates of title and applications of title. Each Borrower shall, at the request of Lender, indicate on its records concerning the Collateral a notation, in form satisfactory to Lender, of the security interest of Lender hereunder.

g) Use of Proceeds.

All monies and other property obtained by a Borrower from Lender pursuant to this Agreement shall be used solely for business purposes of such Borrower.

h) Taxes.

Each Borrower shall file all required tax returns and pay all of its taxes when due, including, without limitation, taxes imposed by federal, state or municipal agencies, and shall cause any liens for taxes to be promptly released; provided, that such Borrower shall have the right to contest the payment of such taxes in good faith by appropriate proceedings so long as (i) the amount so contested is shown on such Borrower’s financial statements; (ii) the contesting of any such payment does not give rise to a lien for taxes; (iii) such Borrower keeps on deposit with Lender (such deposit to be held without interest) an amount of money which, in the sole judgment of Lender, is sufficient to pay such taxes and any interest or penalties that may accrue thereon, a reserve against the availability to borrow money under Section 2(a) hereof in such amount is maintained or such amount is insured against or bonded over to the satisfaction of Lender; and (iv) if such Borrower fails to prosecute such contest with reasonable diligence, Lender may apply the money so deposited or reserved in payment of such taxes. If either Borrower fails to pay any such taxes and in the absence of any such contest by such Borrower, Lender may (but shall be under no obligation to) advance and pay any sums required to pay any such taxes and/or to secure the release of any lien therefor, and any sums so advanced by Lender shall constitute Loans hereunder, shall be payable by such Borrower to Lender on demand, and, until paid, shall bear interest at the highest rate then applicable to Loans hereunder.

i) Intellectual Property.

Each Borrower shall maintain adequate licenses, patents, patent applications, copyrights, service marks, trademarks, trademark applications, tradestyles and trade names to continue its business as heretofore conducted by it or as hereafter conducted by it.

j) Checking Accounts.

Each Borrower shall maintain its general checking/controlled disbursement account with Lender. Normal charges shall be assessed thereon. Although no compensating balance is required, each Borrower must keep monthly balances in order to merit earnings credits which will cover Lender’s service charge for demand deposit account activities.

13. NEGATIVE COVENANTS.

a) Guaranties.

No Borrower shall assume, guarantee or endorse, or otherwise become liable in connection with, the obligations of any Person, except by endorsement of instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of business.

b) Indebtedness.

No Borrower shall create, incur, assume or become obligated (directly or indirectly), for any loans or other indebtedness for borrowed money other than the Loans, except that a Borrower may (i) borrow money from a Person other than Lender on an unsecured and subordinated basis if a subordination agreement in favor of Lender and in form and substance satisfactory to Lender is executed and delivered to Lender relative thereto; (ii) maintain its present indebtedness listed on Schedule 11(n) hereto; (iii) incur unsecured indebtedness to trade creditors in the ordinary course of business; (iv) incur purchase money indebtedness or capitalized lease obligations in connection with Capital Expenditures permitted pursuant to subsection 14(d) hereof; and (v) incur operating lease obligations (other than existing leasehold interests as of the date of this Agreement set forth on Schedule 13(b) hereto) requiring payments not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($250,000) in the aggregate during any Fiscal Year of Borrowers. In addition, AGE may incur indebtedness to WGE to the extent permitted pursuant to subsection 13(f).

c) Liens.

No Borrower shall grant or permit to exist (voluntarily or involuntarily) any lien, claim, security interest or other encumbrance whatsoever on any of its assets, other than Permitted Liens.

d) Mergers, Sales, Acquisitions, Subsidiaries and Other Transactions Outside the Ordinary Course of Business.

Neither of the Borrowers shall (i) enter into any merger or consolidation; (ii) change their respective state of organization or enter into any transaction which has the effect of changing its state of organization (iii) sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any of their respective assets other than in the ordinary course of business; (iv) purchase the stock, other equity interests or all or a material portion of the assets of any Person or division of such Person; or (v) enter into any other transaction outside the ordinary course of such Borrower’s business, including, without limitation, any purchase, redemption or retirement of any shares of any class of its stock or any other equity interest, and any issuance of any shares of, or warrants or other rights to receive or purchase any shares of, any class of its stock or any other equity interest (other than equity compensation plans for their respective officers, employees or members of boards of directors). Neither of the Borrowers shall form any Subsidiaries or enter into any joint ventures or partnerships with any other Person.

e) Dividends and Distributions.

No Borrower shall declare or pay any cash dividend or other distribution (whether in cash or in kind) on any class of its stock (if such Borrower is a corporation) or on account of

any equity interest in such Borrower (if such Borrower is a partnership, limited liability company or other type of entity); provided, however, that WGE may declare and pay an annual 5% stock dividend.

f) Investments; Loans.

Neither Borrower shall purchase or otherwise acquire, or contract to purchase or otherwise acquire, the obligations or stock of any Person, other than direct obligations of the United States or investments in certificates of deposit or other investment products issued or offered by the Lender; nor shall either Borrower lend or otherwise advance funds to any Person except for advances made to employees, officers and directors for travel and other expenses arising in the ordinary course of business. Notwithstanding the foregoing, WGE may advance loans to AGE from time to time, provided, that such loans are evidenced by a note or notes and such note(s) are pledged to Lender and delivered to Lender by WGE as Collateral.

g) Fundamental Changes, Line of Business.

Neither of the Borrowers shall amend its organizational documents or change its Fiscal Year or enter into a new line of business materially different from such Borrower’s current business.

h) Equipment.

Neither of the Borrowers shall (i) permit any Equipment to become a Fixture to real property unless such real property is owned by such Borrower and is subject to a mortgage in favor of Lender, or if such real property is leased, is subject to a landlord’s agreement in favor of Lender on terms acceptable to Lender, or (ii) permit any Equipment to become an accession to any other personal property unless such personal property is subject to a first priority lien in favor of Lender or a Permitted Lien.

i) Affiliate Transactions.

Except as set forth on Schedule 11(i) hereto or as permitted pursuant to subsection 11(c) or 13(f) hereof, neither of the Borrowers shall conduct, permit or suffer to be conducted, transactions with Affiliates other than transactions for the purchase or sale of Inventory or services in the ordinary course of business pursuant to terms that are no less favorable to such Borrower than the terms upon which such transactions would have been made had they been made to or with a Person that is not an Affiliate.

j) Settling of Accounts.

Neither of the Borrowers shall settle or adjust any Account identified by such Borrower as an Eligible Account or with respect to which the Account Debtor is an Affiliate without providing notice thereof to the Lender, provided, that following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, such Borrower shall not settle or adjust any Account without the consent of Lender.

14. FINANCIAL COVENANTS.

Each Borrower shall maintain and keep in full force and effect each of the financial covenants set forth below:

a) Tangible Net Worth.

Borrowers’ Tangible Net Worth shall not at any time be less than the Minimum Tangible Net Worth; “Minimum Tangible Net Worth” being defined for purposes of this subsection as (i) Five Million Five Hundred Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($5,500,000) as of June 30, 2003, September 30, 2003 or December 31, 2003 and (ii) thereafter, as of the last day of each calendar quarter, the Minimum Tangible Net Worth as of the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year plus fifty percent (50%) of Borrowers’ net income (but without reduction for any net loss) for the Fiscal Year immediately preceding the date of calculation as reflected on Borrowers’ audited year end financial statement; and “Tangible Net Worth” being defined for purposes of this Agreement as Borrowers’ shareholders’ equity (including retained earnings) less the book value of all intangible assets as determined solely by Lender on a consistent basis plus the amount of any LIFO reserve plus the amount of any debt subordinated to Lender, all as determined under generally accepted accounting principles applied on a basis consistent with the financial statement dated December 31, 2002 except as set forth herein;

b) Leverage.

Borrowers shall not permit, as of the last day of each calendar quarter, the ratio of their consolidated total liabilities as of the date of calculation, to Tangible Net Worth as of the date of calculation to be greater than 3.50:1.0.

c) Interest Coverage.

Borrowers shall not permit the ratio of (i) EBITDA to (ii) scheduled payments of interest and fees, to the extent carried as interest expense on Borrowers’ financial statements, with respect to indebtedness for borrowed money (including the interest component payments with respect to capitalized leases), to be less than 2.50:1.00 as of the last day of each quarter for the twelve (12) month period ending on such date.

d) Capital Expenditure Limitations.

Borrowers and their Subsidiaries shall not make any Capital Expenditures if, after giving effect to such Capital Expenditure, the aggregate cost of all such fixed assets purchased or otherwise acquired would exceed Two Hundred Fifty Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($250,000) during any Fiscal Year.

15. DEFAULT.

The occurrence of any one or more of the following events shall constitute an “Event of Default” by Borrowers hereunder:

a) Payment.

The failure of any Obligor to pay when due, declared due, or demanded by Lender, any of the Liabilities.

b) Breach of this Agreement and the Other Agreements.

The failure of any Obligor to perform, keep or observe any of the covenants, conditions, promises, agreements or obligations of such Obligor under this Agreement or any of the Other Agreements; provided, that any such failure by either Borrowers under subsections 12(b)(i), (iv), (v), (vi), 12(c) and 12(i) of this Agreement shall not constitute an Event of Default hereunder until the thirtieth (30th) day following the occurrence thereof.

c) Breaches of Other Obligations.

The failure of any Obligor to perform, keep or observe any of the covenants, conditions, promises, agreements or obligations of such Obligor under any other agreement with any Person, after giving effect to any applicable cure period under any such agreement, if such failure might have a Material Adverse Effect on such Obligor.

d) Breach of Representations and Warranties.

The making or furnishing by any Obligor to Lender of any representation, warranty, certificate, schedule, report or other communication within or in connection with this Agreement or the Other Agreements or in connection with any other agreement between such Obligor and Lender, which is untrue or misleading in any respect.

e) Loss of Collateral.

The loss, theft, damage or destruction of, or (except as permitted hereby) sale, lease or furnishing under a contract of service of, any of the Collateral having a book value in excess of $250,000

f) Levy, Seizure or Attachment.

The making or any attempt by any Person to make any levy, seizure or attachment upon any of the Collateral having a book value in excess of $50,000.

g) Bankruptcy or Similar Proceedings.

The commencement of any proceedings in bankruptcy by or against any Obligor or for the liquidation or reorganization of any Obligor, or alleging that such Obligor is insolvent or unable to pay its debts as they mature, or for the readjustment or arrangement of any Obligor’s debts, whether under the United States Bankruptcy Code or under any other law, whether state or federal, now or hereafter existing, for the relief of debtors, or the commencement of any analogous statutory or non-statutory proceedings involving any Obligor; provided, however, that if such commencement of proceedings against such Obligor is involuntary, such action shall not constitute an Event of Default unless such proceedings are not dismissed within forty-five (45) days after the commencement of such proceedings, though Lender shall have no obligation to

make Loans or issue Letters of Credit to any Borrower during such forty-five (45) day period or, if earlier, until such proceedings are dismissed.

h) Appointment of Receiver.

The appointment of a receiver or trustee for any Obligor, for any of the Collateral or for any substantial part of any Obligor’s assets or the institution of any proceedings for the dissolution, or the full or partial liquidation, or the merger or consolidation, of any Obligor which is a corporation, limited liability company or a partnership; provided, however, that if such appointment or commencement of proceedings against such Obligor is involuntary, such action shall not constitute an Event of Default unless such appointment is not revoked or such proceedings are not dismissed within forty-five (45) days after the commencement of such proceedings, though Lender shall have no obligation to make Loans or issue Letters of Credit to any Borrower during such forty-five (45) day period or, if earlier, until such appointment is revoked or such proceedings are dismissed.

i) Judgment.

The entry of any judgment or order against any Obligor which remains unsatisfied or undischarged and in effect for thirty (30) days after such entry without a stay of enforcement or execution.

j) Death or Dissolution of Obligor.

The death of any Obligor who is a natural Person, or of any general partner who is a natural Person of any Obligor which is a partnership, or any member who is a natural Person of any Obligor which is a limited liability company or the dissolution of any Obligor which is a partnership, limited liability company, corporation or other entity.

k) Default or Revocation of Guaranty.

The occurrence of an event of default under, or the revocation or termination of, any agreement, instrument or document executed and delivered by any Person to Lender pursuant to which such Person has guaranteed to Lender the payment of all or any of the Liabilities or has granted Lender a security interest in or lien upon some or all of such Person’s real and/or personal property to secure the payment of all or any of the Liabilities.

l) Criminal Proceedings.

The institution in any court of a criminal proceeding against any Obligor, or the indictment of any Obligor for any crime.

m) Change of Control.

(i) Any Person or Persons acting in concert shall acquire beneficial ownership of more than thirty percent (30%) or more of the outstanding shares of the voting equity of WGE (ii) as of any date a majority of the board of directors of WGE consists of individuals who were

not directors as of the date hereof, or (iii) the failure of WGE to own and have voting control of at least one hundred percent (100%) of the issued and outstanding voting equity interest of AGE.

n) Material Adverse Change.

Any material adverse change in the Collateral, business, property, assets, prospects, operations or condition, financial or otherwise of any Obligor, as determined by Lender in its sole judgment or the occurrence of any event which, in Lender’s sole judgment, could have a Material Adverse Effect.

16. REMEDIES UPON AN EVENT OF DEFAULT.

(a) Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in subsection 15(g) hereof, all of the Liabilities shall immediately and automatically become due and payable, without notice of any kind. Upon the occurrence of any other Event of Default, all Liabilities may, at the option of Lender, and without demand, notice or legal process of any kind, be declared, and immediately shall become, due and payable.

(b) Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, Lender may exercise from time to time any rights and remedies available to it under the Uniform Commercial Code and any other applicable law in addition to, and not in lieu of, any rights and remedies expressly granted in this Agreement or in any of the Other Agreements and all of Lender’s rights and remedies shall be cumulative and non-exclusive to the extent permitted by law. In particular, but not by way of limitation of the foregoing, Lender may, without notice, demand or legal process of any kind, take possession of any or all of the Collateral (in addition to Collateral of which it already has possession), wherever it may be found, and for that purpose may pursue the same wherever it may be found, and may enter onto any of Borrowers’ premises where any of the Collateral may be, and search for, take possession of, remove, keep and store any of the Collateral until the same shall be sold or otherwise disposed of, and Lender shall have the right to store the same at any of Borrowers’ premises without cost to Lender. At Lender’s request, each Borrower shall, at Borrowers’ expense, assemble the Collateral and make it available to Lender at one or more places to be designated by Lender and reasonably convenient to Lender and such Borrower. Each Borrower recognizes that if a Borrower fails to perform, observe or discharge any of its Liabilities under this Agreement or the Other Agreements, no remedy at law will provide adequate relief to Lender, and agrees that Lender shall be entitled to temporary and permanent injunctive relief in any such case without the necessity of proving actual damages. Any notification of intended disposition of any of the Collateral required by law will be deemed to be a reasonable authenticated notification of disposition if given at least ten (10) days prior to such disposition and such notice shall (i) describe Lender and the applicable Borrower(s), (ii) describe the Collateral that is the subject to the intended disposition, (iii) state the method of the intended disposition, (iv) state that the applicable Borrower(s) is entitled to an accounting of the Liabilities and state the charge, if any, for an accounting and (v) state the time and place of any public disposition or the time after which any private sale is to be made. Lender may disclaim any warranties that might arise in connection with the sale, lease or other disposition of the Collateral and has no obligation to provide any warranties at such time. Any Proceeds of any disposition by Lender of any of the Collateral may be applied by Lender to the payment of expenses in connection with the Collateral, including, without limitation, legal expenses and

reasonable attorneys’ fees, and any balance of such Proceeds may be applied by Lender toward the payment of such of the Liabilities, and in such order of application, as Lender may from time to time elect.

17. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.

The obligation of Lender to fund the initial Revolving Loan, and to issue or cause to be issued the initial Letter of Credit, is subject to the satisfaction or waiver on or before the date hereof of the following conditions precedent:

(a) Lender shall have received each of the agreements, opinions, reports, approvals, consents, certificates and other documents set forth on the closing document list attached hereto as Schedule 17(a) (the “Closing Document List”) in each case in form and substance satisfactory to Lender;

(b) Since March 31, 2003, no event shall have occurred which has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on any Obligor, as determined by Lender in its sole discretion;

(c) Lender shall have received payment in full of all fees and expenses payable to it by Borrowers or any other Person in connection herewith, on or before disbursement of the initial Loans hereunder;

(d) Lender shall have determined that immediately after giving effect to (A) the making of the initial Loans, including without limitation the Revolving Loans, if any, requested to be made on the date hereof, (B) the issuance of the initial Letter of Credit, if any, requested to be made on such date, (C) the payment of all fees due upon such date and (D) the payment or reimbursement by Borrowers of Lender for all closing costs and expenses incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, Borrowers have Excess Availability of not less than One Million and No/100 Dollars ($1,000,000); and

(e) The Obligors shall have executed and delivered to Lender all such other documents, instruments and agreements which Lender determines are reasonably necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby.

18. JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, all Liabilities of each Borrower hereunder shall be joint and several obligations of Borrowers.

(b) Notwithstanding any provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, it is intended that the joint and several nature of the Liabilities of Borrowers and the liens and security interests granted by Borrowers to secure the Liabilities, not constitute a “Fraudulent Conveyance” (as defined below). Consequently, Lender and Borrowers agree that if the Liabilities of a Borrower, or any liens or security interests granted by such Borrower securing the Liabilities would, but for the application of this sentence, constitute a Fraudulent Conveyance, the Liabilities of such Borrower and the liens and security interests securing such Liabilities shall be valid and enforceable only to the maximum extent that would not cause such Liabilities or

such lien or security interest to constitute a Fraudulent Conveyance, and the Liabilities of such Borrower and this Agreement shall automatically be deemed to have been amended accordingly. For purposes hereof, “Fraudulent Conveyance” means a fraudulent conveyance under Section 548 of Chapter 11 of Title II of the United States Code (11 U.S.C. § 101, et seq.), as amended (the “Bankruptcy Code”) or a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under the applicable provisions of any fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer law or similar law of any state, nation or other governmental unit, as in effect from time to time.

(c) Each Borrower assumes responsibility for keeping itself informed of the financial condition of the each other Borrower, and any and all endorsers and/or guarantors of any instrument or document evidencing all or any part of such other Borrower’s Liabilities and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment by such other Borrowers of their Liabilities and each Borrower agrees that Lender shall not have any duty to advise such Borrower of information known to Lender regarding such condition or any such circumstances or to undertake any investigation not a part of its regular business routine. If Lender, in its sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any such information to a Borrower, Lender shall not be under any obligation to update any such information or to provide any such information to such Borrower on any subsequent occasion.

(d) Lender is hereby authorized, without notice or demand and without affecting the liability of a Borrower hereunder, to, at any time and from time to time, (i) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, renew, extend, accelerate or otherwise change the time for payment of, or other terms relating to a Borrower’s Liabilities or otherwise modify, amend or change the terms of any promissory note or other agreement, document or instrument now or hereafter executed by a Borrower and delivered to Lender; (ii) accept partial payments on a Borrower’s Liabilities; (iii) take and hold security or collateral for the payment of a Borrower’s Liabilities hereunder or for the payment of any guaranties of a Borrower’s Liabilities or other liabilities of a Borrower and exchange, enforce, waive and release any such security or collateral; (iv) apply such security or collateral and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as Lender, in its sole discretion, may determine; and (v) settle, release, compromise, collect or otherwise liquidate a Borrower’s Liabilities and any security or collateral therefor in any manner, without affecting or impairing the obligations of the other Borrowers. Lender shall have the exclusive right to determine the time and manner of application of any payments or credits, whether received from a Borrower or any other source, and such determination shall be binding on such Borrower. All such payments and credits may be applied, reversed and reapplied, in whole or in part, to any of a Borrower’s Liabilities as Lender shall determine in its sole discretion without affecting the validity or enforceability of the Liabilities of the other Borrowers.

(e) Each Borrower hereby agrees that, except as hereinafter provided, its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of (i) the absence of any attempt to collect a Borrower’s Liabilities from any Borrower or any guarantor or other action to enforce the same; (ii) the waiver or consent by Lender with respect to any provision of any instrument evidencing Borrowers’ Liabilities, or any part thereof, or any other agreement heretofore, now or hereafter executed by a Borrower and delivered to Lender; (iii) failure by Lender to take any steps to perfect and maintain its security interest in, or to preserve its rights to, any security or collateral for Borrowers’ Liabilities; (iv) the institution of any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code, or any similar proceeding, by or against a Borrower or Lender’s election in any such

proceeding of the application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code; (v) any borrowing or grant of a security interest by any Borrower as debtor-in-possession, under Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code; (vi) the disallowance, under Section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code, of all or any portion of Lender’s claim(s) for repayment of any of Borrowers’ Liabilities; or (vii) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor.

(f) No payment made by or for the account of a Borrower including, without limitations, (i) a payment made by such Borrower on behalf of another Borrower’s Liabilities or (ii) a payment made by any other person under any guaranty, shall entitle such Borrower, by subrogation or otherwise, to any payment from such other Borrower or from or out of such other Borrower’s property and such Borrower shall not exercise any right or remedy against such other Borrower or any property of such other Borrower by reason of any performance of such Borrower of its joint and several obligations hereunder.

19. INDEMNIFICATION.

Each Borrower agrees to defend (with counsel satisfactory to Lender), protect, indemnify and hold harmless Lender, each affiliate or subsidiary of Lender, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, attorneys and agents (each an “Indemnified Party”) from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, claims, costs, expenses and disbursements of any kind or nature (including, without limitation, the disbursements and the reasonable fees of counsel for each Indemnified Party in connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding, whether or not the Indemnified Party shall be designated a party thereto), which may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against, any Indemnified Party (whether direct, indirect or consequential and whether based on any federal, state or local laws or regulations, including, without limitation, securities laws and regulations, Environmental Laws and commercial laws and regulations, under common law or in equity, or based on contract or otherwise) in any manner relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any Other Agreement, or any act, event or transaction related or attendant thereto, the making or issuance and the management of the Loans or any Letters of Credit or the use or intended use of the proceeds of the Loans or any Letters of Credit; provided, however, that no Borrower shall have any obligation hereunder to any Indemnified Party with respect to matters caused by or resulting from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of such Indemnified Party. To the extent that the undertaking to indemnify set forth in the preceding sentence may be unenforceable because it is violative of any law or public policy, each Borrower shall satisfy such undertaking to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. Any liability, obligation, loss, damage, penalty, cost or expense covered by this indemnity shall be paid to each Indemnified Party on demand, and, failing prompt payment, shall, together with interest thereon at the highest rate then applicable to Loans hereunder from the date incurred by each Indemnified Party until paid by Borrowers, be added to the Liabilities of Borrowers and be secured by the Collateral. The provisions of this Section 18 shall survive the satisfaction and payment of the other Liabilities and the termination of this Agreement.

20. NOTICE.

All written notices and other written communications with respect to this Agreement shall be sent by ordinary, certified or overnight mail, by telecopy or delivered in person, and in the case of Lender shall be sent to it at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, attention: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, facsimile number: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, and in the case of Borrowers shall be sent to them at their respective principal places of business set forth on Exhibit A hereto or as otherwise directed by Borrowers in writing. All notices shall be deemed received upon actual receipt thereof or refusal of delivery.

21. CHOICE OF GOVERNING LAW; CONSTRUCTION; FORUM SELECTION.

This Agreement and the Other Agreements are submitted by Borrowers to Lender for Lender’s acceptance or rejection at Lender’s principal place of business as an offer by Borrowers to borrow monies from Lender now and from time to time hereafter, and shall not be binding upon Lender or become effective until accepted by Lender, in writing, at said place of business. If so accepted by Lender, this Agreement and the Other Agreements shall be deemed to have been made at said place of business. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER AGREEMENTS SHALL BE GOVERNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS AS TO INTERPRETATION, ENFORCEMENT, VALIDITY, CONSTRUCTION, EFFECT, AND IN ALL OTHER RESPECTS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE LEGALITY OF THE INTEREST RATE AND OTHER CHARGES, BUT EXCLUDING PERFECTION OF THE SECURITY INTERESTS IN COLLATERAL LOCATED OUTSIDE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, WHICH SHALL BE GOVERNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE LAWS OF THE RELEVANT JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH COLLATERAL IS LOCATED. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held to be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of such provision or remaining provisions of this Agreement.

To induce Lender to accept this Agreement, each Borrower irrevocably agrees that, subject to Lender’s sole and absolute election, ALL ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS IN ANY WAY, MANNER OR RESPECT, ARISING OUT OF OR FROM OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER AGREEMENTS OR THE COLLATERAL SHALL BE LITIGATED IN COURTS HAVING SITUS WITHIN THE CITY OF CHICAGO, STATE OF ILLINOIS. EACH BORROWER HEREBY CONSENTS AND SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY LOCAL, STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS LOCATED WITHIN SAID CITY AND STATE. EACH BORROWER AGREES THAT ALL SERVICE OF PROCESS WITH RESPECT TO PROCEEDINGS INITIATED BY LENDER WITH RESPECT TO ITS ENFORCEMENT OF ITS RIGHTS HEREUNDER MAY BE MADE UPON SUCH BORROWER BY CERTIFIED OR REGISTERED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, ADDRESSED TO SUCH BORROWER, AT THE ADDRESS SET FORTH FOR NOTICE IN THIS AGREEMENT AND SERVICE SO MADE SHALL BE COMPLETE TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE SAME HAS BEEN POSTED. EACH BORROWER HEREBY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO TRANSFER OR CHANGE THE VENUE OF ANY LITIGATION BROUGHT AGAINST SUCH BORROWER BY LENDER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION.

22. MODIFICATION AND BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT.

This Agreement and the Other Agreements may not be modified, altered or amended except by an agreement in writing signed by each Borrower or such other Person who is a party to such Other Agreement and Lender. No Borrower may sell, assign or transfer this Agreement, or the Other Agreements or any portion thereof, including, without limitation, such Borrower’s rights, titles, interest, remedies, powers or duties hereunder and thereunder. Each Borrower hereby consents to Lender’s sale, assignment, transfer or other disposition, at any time and from time to time hereafter, of this Agreement, or the Other Agreements, or of any portion thereof, or participations therein, including, without limitation, Lender’s rights, titles, interest, remedies, powers and/or duties and agrees that it shall execute and deliver such documents as Lender may request in connection with any such sale, assignment, transfer or other disposition.

23. HEADINGS OF SUBDIVISIONS.

The headings of subdivisions in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only, and shall not govern the interpretation of any of the provisions of this Agreement.

24. POWER OF ATTORNEY.

Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that its appointment of Lender as its attorney and agent-in-fact for the purposes specified in this Agreement is an appointment coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable until all of the Liabilities are satisfied and paid in full and this Agreement is terminated.

25. CONFIDENTIALITY.

Lender hereby agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to assure that any and all information relating to such Borrower which is (i) furnished by such Borrower to Lender (or to any affiliate of Lender); and (ii) non-public, confidential or proprietary in nature, shall be kept confidential by Lender or such affiliate in accordance with applicable law; provided, however, that such information and other credit information relating to such Borrower may be distributed by Lender or such affiliate to Lender’s or such affiliate’s directors, officers, employees, attorneys, affiliates, assignees, participants, auditors, agents and regulators, and upon the order of a court or other governmental agency having jurisdiction over Lender or such affiliate, to any other party. Each Borrower and Lender further agree that this provision shall survive the termination of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Borrower hereby consents to Lender publishing a tombstone or similar advertising material relating to the financing transaction contemplated by this Agreement.

26. COUNTERPARTS.

This Agreement, any of the Other Agreements and any amendments, waivers, consents or supplements may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed an original, but all of which counterparts together shall constitute but one agreement.

27. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS.

Upon not less than thirty (30) days’ prior written notice (the “Approved Electronic Form Notice”), Lender may permit or require that any of the documents, certificates, forms, deliveries or other communications, authorized, required or contemplated by this Agreement or the Other Agreements, be submitted to Lender in “Approved Electronic Form” (as hereafter defined), subject to any reasonable terms, conditions and requirements in the applicable Approved Electronic Forms Notice. For purposes hereof “Electronic Form” means e-mail, e-mail attachments, data submitted on web-based forms or any other communication method that delivers machine readable data or information to Lender, and “Approved Electronic Form” means an Electronic Form that has been approved in writing by Lender (which approval has not been revoked or modified by Lender) and sent to Borrowers in an Approved Electronic Form Notice. Except as otherwise specifically provided in the applicable Approved Electronic Form Notice, any submissions made in an applicable Approved Electronic Form shall have the same force and effect that the same submissions would have had if they had been submitted in any other applicable form authorized, required or contemplated by this Agreement or the Other Agreements.

28. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL; OTHER WAIVERS.

(a) EACH BORROWER AND LENDER EACH HEREBY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING WHICH PERTAINS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OF THE OTHER AGREEMENTS, THE LIABILITIES, THE COLLATERAL, ANY ALLEGED TORTIOUS CONDUCT BY A BORROWER OR LENDER OR WHICH, IN ANY WAY, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ARISES OUT OF OR RELATES TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A BORROWER AND LENDER. IN NO EVENT SHALL LENDER BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR OTHER SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNATIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

(b) Each Borrower hereby waives demand, presentment, protest and notice of nonpayment, and further waives the benefit of all valuation, appraisal and exemption laws.

(c) Each Borrower hereby waives the benefit of any law that would otherwise restrict or limit Lender or any affiliate of Lender in the exercise of its right, which is hereby acknowledged and agreed to, to set-off against the Liabilities, without notice at any time hereafter, any indebtedness, matured or unmatured, owing by Lender or such affiliate of Lender to such Borrower, including, without limitation any deposit account at Lender or such affiliate.

(d) EACH BORROWER, TO THE FULL EXTENT SUCH WAIVER IS ENFORCEABLE AT LAW AND TO THE EXTENT NO NOTICE OR HEARING IS OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR IN THIS AGREEMENT, HEREBY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO NOTICE AND HEARING OF ANY KIND PRIOR TO THE EXERCISE BY LENDER OF ITS RIGHTS TO REPOSSESS THE COLLATERAL OF SUCH BORROWER WITHOUT JUDICIAL PROCESS OR TO REPLEVY, ATTACH OR LEVY UPON SUCH COLLATERAL.

(e) Lender’s failure, at any time or times hereafter, to require strict performance by a Borrower of any provision of this Agreement or any of the Other Agreements

shall not waive, affect or diminish any right of Lender thereafter to demand strict compliance and performance therewith. Any suspension or waiver by Lender of an Event of Default under this Agreement or any default under any of the Other Agreements shall not suspend, waive or affect any other Event of Default under this Agreement or any other default under any of the Other Agreements, whether the same is prior or subsequent thereto and whether of the same or of a different kind or character. No delay on the part of Lender in the exercise of any right or remedy under this Agreement or any Other Agreement shall preclude other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any right or remedy. None of the undertakings, agreements, warranties, covenants and representations of Borrowers contained in this Agreement or any of the Other Agreements and no Event of Default under this Agreement or default under any of the Other Agreements shall be deemed to have been suspended or waived by Lender unless such suspension or waiver is in writing, signed by a duly authorized officer of Lender and directed to Borrowers specifying such suspension or waiver.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.

▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ELECTRONICS CORPORATION		LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION


By:	/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇	By:	/s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇

Title: VP Finance & CFO		Title: Commercial Banking Officer

AMERICAN GAMING & ELECTRONICS, INC.


By:	/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇

Title: VP Finance & CFO

Loan and Security Agreement DATED AS OF JUNE 30, 2003 BETWEEN LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION THE LENDER, WELLS-GARDNER ELECTRONICS CORPORATION AND AMERICAN GAMING & ELECTRONICS, INC. THE BORROWERS

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