Exhibit 10.4

SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT

(CANAL MEZZANINE PARTNERS, L.P.)

Dated: January 30, 2008

 

To:   Fifth Third Bank   Commercial Banking   Mailcode: MD A67811   Fifth Floor
  121 South Main St.   Akron, Ohio 44308

To induce Fifth Third Bank (“Bank”) to establish a credit facility for making
loans and extending credit from time to time for the benefit of DPAC
Technologies Corp., a California corporation, and Quatech, Inc. an Ohio
corporation (collectively, together with each of their successors and permitted
assigns, herein collectively referred to as the “Borrowers” and each
individually referred to a “Borrower”) as a pursuant to the terms of that
certain Credit Agreement among Borrowers and Bank as of even date herewith (as
hereafter amended, extended, modified, supplemented, restated, or replaced from
time to time, the “Loan Agreement”), and to induce the undersigned to make loans
to and for the benefit of Borrowers pursuant to the terms of the SubDebt
Agreement (as defined below), the undersigned, intending to be legally bound,
hereby agrees as follows:

1. The payment of any and all Subordinated Debt is expressly subordinated to the
Senior Debt to the extent and in the manner set forth in this Subordination
Agreement. The term “Subordinated Debt” means the principal of and interest on
all indebtedness, liabilities, and obligations of Borrowers, or either of them,
now existing or hereafter arising, to the undersigned, including but not limited
to: (i) obligations, including without limitation, indemnification obligations,
owing by Borrowers, or either of them, to the undersigned, or the undersigned’s
successors, assignees, affiliates, or designees, pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the agreements and documents referred to on Schedule A, attached
hereto and made a part hereof (collectively, “SubDebt Agreements”) and (ii) the
right of the undersigned to receive payments of principal, interest and other
amounts that might or would be due under or, in connection with, the Warrants
(as defined on Schedule A), and (iii) any other obligations owing by Borrowers,
or either of them, now or hereafter to the undersigned. The term “Senior Debt”
means any and all obligations of Borrowers to Bank under, in connection with, or
in any way related to (including debtor-in-possession financing), the Loan
Agreement (including, without limitation, any interest accruing thereon after
maturity or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement
of any insolvency, reorganization, or like proceeding relating to any Borrower,
whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in
such proceeding), up to a maximum aggregate principal amount outstanding at any
time not to exceed $ 3,000,000.00, in addition to all other obligations to the
Bank, including interest thereon and any reasonable fees or expenses relating
thereto (“Senior Debt Limit”); provided that the Senior Debt shall exclude
amounts that accrue due to modifications to the Loan Agreement made in
contravention of Section 10. (a) hereof. All capitalized terms not defined
herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Loan Agreement as of the date
hereof.

2. (a) As long as no Event of Default or Potential Default has occurred under
the Loan Agreement, and if no Event of Default or Potential Default has would
result from the making of any such payments, the Borrowers may pay and, as long
as no Payment Block (as defined below) is in effect, the undersigned may accept
regularly scheduled payments of interest and payment of principal at maturity
with respect to the Subordinated Debt and payments or reimbursements of actual,
reasonable costs and expenses as provided under the SubDebt Agreements. Unless
and until the Senior Debt is indefeasibly paid in full and Bank has no further
obligation to make loans to the Borrowers, Borrowers

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shall not pay, and the undersigned shall not accept, any other payments of any
kind associated with the Subordinated Debt (including without limitation amounts
arising from the sale or disposition, or other proceeds, of Borrowers’ property
that may be subject to a lien or security interest of the undersigned). No
payment or distribution of any kind shall be made, directly or indirectly,
whether in cash, securities or other property, by setoff or otherwise, on
account of any Subordinated Debt, or in respect of any redemption, repurchase,
or other acquisition of any Subordinated Debt by Borrowers, or received by the
undersigned, (a) at any time during which any of the Senior Debt shall have been
declared due and payable prior to its stated final maturity or shall have become
due and payable at stated final maturity, and in either case shall remain
unpaid, (b) at any time during any Blockage Period, or (c) at any time during a
Proceeding (as defined in the following paragraph) (each a “Payment Block”);
provided that scheduled interest payments, and scheduled principal payments to
the extent permitted hereunder, and payments or reimbursements of actual costs
and expenses that were not paid due to the existence of a Payment Block, may be
paid as and when the Payment Block ceases to continue as long as such payments
are otherwise permitted hereunder. The Subordinated Debt shall not be
prepayable, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of Bank. . In
addition, unless and until the Senior Debt is indefeasibly paid in full and
Lender has no further obligations to make Loans under the Loan Agreement, the
undersigned shall not at any time exercise any rights to redeem or cause a
repurchase of, the Subordinated Debt (including without limitation the exercise
of any warrant associated therewith that results in any cash payments), nor
shall Companies permit any redemption or repurchase as set forth in the SubDebt
Agreements except in accordance with an action or proceeding referenced in
Section 8 hereof (but subject always to the subordination provisions set forth
herein). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Permitted
Actions shall not be prohibited by the Subordination Agreement, including after
the occurrence of an Event of Default or Potential Default. For purposes hereof,
“Permitted Actions” shall mean (i) payment on the Subordinated Debt in kind
(i.e. non-cash), (ii) a conversion of the Subordinated Debt to equity,
(iii) operation of anti-dilution rights under the SubDebt Agreement, and
(iv) the performance of all earlier agreements and covenants in accordance with
the terms of the SubDebt Agreements that do not result in payments of cash to
the undersigned.

(b) For purposes hereof (i) “Blockage Period” means the period commencing on the
date that (a) Bank shall have delivered written notice to the undersigned in
accordance with Section 19. hereof that an Event of Default or Potential Default
has occurred and is continuing, and ending on the earliest of (1) the day which
is 180 days after the delivery of such notice, (2) the day on which such Event
of Default or Potential Default shall have been cured or waived in writing, and
(3) the commencement of a Proceeding; provided that no default notice from Bank
may be based on an Event of Default which was in existence as of the time of the
issuance of any earlier default notice and specified therein unless such Event
of Default shall have been cured for not less than 90 days and is subsequently
determined to be a new Event of Default (for purposes of this paragraph,
breaches of the same financial covenant for consecutive periods shall constitute
separate and distinct Events of Default) and provided further that Bank shall
not be permitted to institute more than three (3) Blockage Periods in any twelve
(12) consecutive month period or (b) the undersigned delivers a written notice
to Bank that a default or event of default has occurred and is continuing under
the SubDebt Agreements, and ending on the earliest of (1) the day which is 180
days after delivery of such notice by Bank or (2) the day on which such default
or event of default shall have been cured or waived in writing; and
(ii) “Proceeding” means (a) any voluntary or involuntary insolvency, bankruptcy,
receivership, liquidation, reorganization, readjustment, composition, or other
similar case or proceeding relating to a Borrower or any of its property,
(b) any case or proceeding for any liquidation, dissolution, or other wind-up of
a Borrower, whether voluntary or involuntary, and whether or not involving
insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, or (c) any assignment for the benefit of
creditors or marshalling of assets of a Borrower or the appointment of a
trustee, receiver, sequestrator, or other custodian for a Borrower or any of its
property.

 

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3. Any payments on the Subordinated Debt received by the undersigned (including,
without limitation, prepayments on the Subordinated Debt and receipt of proceeds
from Borrowers’ property upon which the undersigned has a lien or security
interest), other than as expressly permitted in Section 2. above, shall be held
in trust for Bank and the undersigned will forthwith turn over any such payments
in the form received, properly endorsed, to Bank to be applied to the Senior
Debt as determined by Bank in its sole discretion.

4. Borrowers shall not grant to the undersigned and the undersigned shall not
take any lien on or security interest in any of the Collateral, now owned or
hereafter acquired or created, without Bank’s prior written consent; it being
acknowledged and agreed by the Bank that the undersigned has been granted a lien
on and security interest in certain of the Collateral and other property of
Borrowers on the date thereof; provided however, that the interests of Bank in
any Collateral securing the Senior Debt shall have priority over any security or
other interest of the undersigned in the Collateral and any other assets of
Borrowers that secures the Subordinated Debt. The undersigned agrees to execute
and deliver to Bank, contemporaneously with the execution of this Agreement, an
Agreement To Subordinate Priority Of Security Interests; except as specifically
provided for herein and therein , the priority of the security interests of the
parties hereto in the Collateral shall be in accordance with the Uniform
Commercial Code as enacted and amended from time to time. For purposes of this
Agreement, the term “Collateral” shall mean all “Collateral” as such term is
defined in each separate Security Agreement by and between Bank and each of the
Borrowers of even date herewith.

5. This Subordination Agreement shall be effective notwithstanding the time,
order or method of attachment or perfection with respect to the Collateral, the
time or order of recording or the filing or non-filing of financing statements
or other recordings or filings. Under no circumstances shall the undersigned
have a right to foreclose upon the Collateral or otherwise attempt to enforce
any rights it may have with respect to the Collateral whether by judicial action
or otherwise, until all of the Senior Debt has been indefeasibly paid and
satisfied in full, and Bank has no further obligations to make loans to the
Borrowers.

6. The undersigned shall have no right, as against the Bank, to receive or
retain all or any portion of the Collateral, including the proceeds thereof, at
any time unless and until the Senior Debt is indefeasibly paid and satisfied in
full and Bank has no further obligation to make loans to the Borrowers. To the
extent the undersigned obtains possession of any Collateral and/or the proceeds
thereof, the undersigned shall hold the same in trust for Bank and shall
immediately deliver the same to Bank, in the same form as received with any
necessary endorsement.

7. The undersigned agrees that it will not make any assertion or claim in any
action, suit or proceeding of any nature whatsoever in any way seeking to avoid
or otherwise challenging (a) the priority of the liens and security interests
granted to Bank to secure the Senior Debt or the validity or effectiveness of
the liens and security interests granted to Bank under and in connection with,
(b) the validity or effectiveness to the transactions contemplated by, or
(c) any remedial action taken in respect of the Collateral by Bank in good faith
under, the Loan Agreement or any other Loan Documents all as may be amended,
extended, modified, or replaced from time to time.

8. Notwithstanding any breach or default by Borrower under the SubDebt
Agreements and expressly subject to the terms and agreements set forth elsewhere
in this Subordination Agreement, unless and until the Senior Debt shall be
indefeasibly paid and satisfied in full, the undersigned shall not at any time
or in any manner unless 180 days have passed since the receipt by Bank of
written notice from the undersigned of its intention to do so following the
occurrence of a default under the SubDebt Agreements, commence any action or
proceeding against Borrowers to recover all or any part of the Subordinated Debt
not paid when due, or join with any creditor other than the Bank, in bringing
any Proceeding against any

 

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of the Borrowers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Section 8., the undersigned shall be entitled to accelerate the amount of the
Subordinated Debt upon the acceleration of the Senior Debt or the filing of a
Proceeding by any Borrower. Nothing in this Section 8. is intended to limit the
rights of the undersigned to seek specific performance of any of the covenants
or other obligations of Borrowers (other than payment obligations which shall be
limited by this Section 8.) set forth in the SubDebt Agreements as long as the
performance by Borrowers of such covenant or obligations would not give rise to
an Event of Default under the Loan Agreement or other Loan Documents.

9. In the event of any Proceeding, the undersigned will at Bank’s request file
any claims, proofs of claim, or other instruments of similar character necessary
to enforce the obligations of Borrowers in respect of the Subordinated Debt and
will hold in trust for Bank and pay over to Bank in the same form received, to
be applied on the Senior Debt as determined by Bank, any and all money,
dividends or other assets received in any such Proceeding on account of the
Subordinated Debt, unless and until the Senior Debt shall be indefeasibly paid
and satisfied in full. In the event the undersigned fails to execute, verify,
deliver, and file any proofs of claim in respect of the Subordinated Debt in
connection with any such Proceeding prior to twenty (20) days before the
expiration of the time to file any such proof or fails to vote any such claim in
any such Proceeding prior to five (5) days before the expiration of the time to
vote any such claim, Bank may, as attorney-in-fact for the undersigned, take
such action on behalf of the undersigned and the undersigned hereby appoints
Bank as attorney-in-fact for the undersigned to demand, sue for, collect, and
receive any and all such money, dividends, or other assets and give acquittance
therefore and to file any claim, proof of claim or other instrument of similar
character and to take such other similar actions in such Proceeding in Bank’s
name or in the name of the undersigned, as Bank may deem reasonably necessary or
advisable for the enforcement of this Subordination Agreement. The undersigned
will execute and deliver to Bank such other and further powers of attorney or
other instruments as Bank may reasonably request in order to accomplish the
foregoing.

10. Bank may at any time and from time to time, without the consent of or notice
to the undersigned, without incurring responsibility to the undersigned and
without impairing or releasing any of Bank’s rights, or any of the obligations
of the undersigned:

(a) Change the amount, manner, place or terms of payment, or change or extend
the time of payment of or renew or alter the Senior Debt, or any part thereof,
or amend, supplement, or replace the Loan Agreement and/or any notes or other
Loan Documents (as defined in the Loan Agreement) executed in connection
therewith in any manner or enter into or amend, supplement, or replace in any
manner any other agreement relating to the Senior Debt including without
limitation, such changes or modifications that may be made in conjunction with a
complete or partial refinance thereof or otherwise; provided however that the
Borrowers and Bank agree that they will not amend, modify, or alter the Loan
Agreement, the Senior Debt, or any other agreement relating to the Senior Debt
without the consent of the undersigned, if the effect would (directly or
indirectly) be (i) to permit the principal amount of Senior Debt to exceed the
Senior Debt Limit, (ii) to cause any applicable interest rate margin as in
effect on the date hereof to be increased by more than two percent (2%) per
annum, or to impose an interest rate margin where none presently exists of more
than two percent (2%) per annum (without taking into account and specifically
excluding any increases in margins or rates that may be imposed as the Default
Rate, (as defined in the Loan Agreement in effect as of the date hereof)
following an Event of Default), (iii) to charge fees in conjunction with any
waiver or amendment of the Loan Documents in an amount in excess of $ 25,000.00
(exclusive of fees currently described in the Loan Documents and fees, costs and
expenses associated with such waiver or amendment) in any calendar year, (iv) to
extend the maturity date of the Senior Debt beyond January 31, 2013, (v) any
additional restriction on the payment of the Subordinated Debt to that contained
in the Loan Agreement or this Subordination Agreement, as in effect on the date
hereof, or (vi) to change or alter the nature or any part of the Senior Debt
facility or any of the Loan Documents from a revolving credit facility or line
of credit to a term loan.

 

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(b) Subject to Section 14. below, sell, exchange, release, or otherwise deal
with all or any part of any property at any time pledged or mortgaged by any
party to secure or securing the Senior Debt or any part thereof;

(c) Release any Person liable in any manner for the payment or collection of the
Senior Debt (including, without limitation, a Borrower);

(d) Exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Borrower or
others (including the undersigned); and

(e) Apply sums paid by any party to the Senior Debt in any order or manner as
determined by Bank.

11. The undersigned and the Borrowers shall not amend or modify the SubDebt
Agreements such that it would (directly or indirectly) (i) increase the maximum
principal amount of the Subordinated Debt, (ii) increase the rate of interest on
any of the Subordinated Debt (other than by payment of interest in kind (i.e.,
non-cash)) (without taking into account increases as currently set forth in the
SubDebt Agreements, resulting from a default or event of default thereunder),
(iii) subject to the subordination provisions contained herein, include fees
payable in conjunction with any amendment or waiver of any of the SubDebt
Agreement (exclusive of fees currently described in the SubDebt Agreements and
fees, costs and expenses associated with such waiver or amendment) in excess of
$ 25,000.00 in the aggregate in any calendar year, (iv) change to an earlier
date any date upon which regularly scheduled payments of interest on the
Subordinated Debt under and pursuant to the terms of the SubDebt Agreements are
due or change the maturity of the Subordinated Debt or (v) add or make more
restrictive any event of default or any covenant with respect to the
Subordinated Debt, without the prior written consent of the Bank; provided
however, that at any time Bank amends any term of the Loan Documents, the
undersigned shall be permitted to make conforming amendments and modifications
to the SubDebt Agreements; provided further however, that, amendments to the
financial covenants in the SubDebt Agreements shall, if modified, at all times,
contain financial covenant thresholds that are at least 15% less restrictive
than the financial covenants contained in the Loan Agreement, provided further
that the undersigned shall not be obligated to modify or amend the financial
covenants in the SubDebt Agreement.

12. The undersigned shall advise each future holder of all or any part of the
Subordinated Debt that the Subordinated Debt is subordinated to the Senior Debt
in the manner and to the extent provided herein. The undersigned represents that
no part of the Subordinated Debt or any instrument evidencing the same has been
transferred or assigned and the undersigned shall not transfer or assign any
part of the Subordinated Debt while any Senior Debt remains outstanding, unless
such transfer or assignment is made expressly subject to this Subordination
Agreement by the execution by the new holder of the Subordinated Debt of (i) a
joinder that will make the new holder a party to this Agreement or (ii) a
separate agreement substantially identical to this Agreement. Upon Bank’s
request, the undersigned will in the case of any Subordinated Debt that is not
evidenced by any instrument cause the same to be evidenced by an appropriate
instrument or instruments, and place thereon and on any and all instruments
evidencing the Subordinated Debt a legend in such form as Bank may determine to
the effect that the indebtedness evidenced thereby is subordinated and subject
to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt pursuant to this Subordination
Agreement, as well as deliver all such instruments to Bank.

 

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13. This is a continuing agreement and will remain in full force and effect
until all of the Senior Debt has been indefeasibly paid and satisfied in full
and Bank has no further obligation to make Loans under the Loan Agreement. This
Subordination Agreement will continue to be effective or will be automatically
reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment of all or any part of the
Senior Debt is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Borrowers, or
either of them, upon a Proceeding of any of the Borrowers or otherwise, all as
though such payment had not been made.

14. (a) If at any time or from time to time the Collateral, or any portion
thereof, is in any manner sold or otherwise transferred, the undersigned’s
consent to such disposition shall be automatically and irrevocably given if the
Bank (i) in its sole discretion and for any reason, consents to such disposition
and, except where a disposition or sale by any Borrower is permitted by the
terms of the Loan Agreement and/or the Loan Documents (as in effect on the date
hereof) or where any Borrower is otherwise permitted by the terms of the Loan
Agreement and/or the Loan Documents (as in effect on the date hereof) to retain
proceeds of a disposition, sale, or casualty, and (ii) notifies the undersigned
that Bank intends to apply the proceeds received by Bank in conjunction with the
sale or transfer referenced above to the Senior Debt and that the Senior Debt
Limit will be reduced by the amount of such proceeds so applied (exclusive of
proceeds from the sale or disposition of Accounts effectuated when an Event of
Default has not occurred or is no longer continuing). In any event, the
undersigned shall not be entitled to receive any proceeds of any such
disposition unless and until the Senior Debt has been indefeasibly paid in full
and Bank has no further obligation to make Loans under the Loan Agreement.

(b) If, at any time and for any reason, the undersigned consents, or is deemed
to have consented to a sale, transfer, or disposition in accordance with
subsection (a) above and Bank releases its lien on the Collateral, or any
portion thereof, the undersigned shall likewise release its lien on the property
so released from the Bank’s lien. Bank may, as attorney-in-fact for the
undersigned, take such action on behalf of the undersigned (in Bank’s name or in
the name of the undersigned, as Bank may deem necessary or advisable) and the
undersigned hereby appoints Bank as attorney-in-fact for the undersigned to
effectuate such release, and the undersigned hereby authorizes Bank to file any
Uniform Commercial Code amendments to the undersigned’s financing statements
filed against the Borrowers, or either of them, in connection with such release.
The undersigned shall execute and deliver to Bank such other and further powers
of attorney or other instruments as Bank reasonably may request in order to
accomplish the foregoing.

15. Nothing in this Subordination Agreement is intended to compel the Bank or
the undersigned at any time to declare any of the Borrowers in default or compel
the Bank to proceed against or refrain from proceeding against any Collateral in
any order or manner. All rights and remedies of the Bank, with respect to the
Collateral, any of the Borrowers, and any other obligors concerning the Senior
Debt are cumulative and not alternative. In furtherance of the foregoing, the
undersigned waives any and all rights to assert the equitable doctrine of
marshalling against Bank.

16. In the event of the commencement of a Proceeding, the Bank shall have the
option (in its sole and absolute discretion) to continue to provide financing
(on terms acceptable to the Bank) of the trustee, other fiduciary, or of any of
the Borrowers as a debtor-in-possession, if the Bank deems such financing to be
in its best interests. Subject to the Senior Debt Limit, the subordination and
lien priority provisions of this Subordination Agreement shall continue to apply
to all advances made during the pendency of such Proceedings, so that the Bank
shall have a prior lien on all Collateral, created before or during such
Proceeding, to secure all Senior Debt, whether created before or during such
Proceeding. The undersigned’s consent to such financing shall not be required
regardless of whether the court supervising such Proceeding approves, grants, or
allows adequate protection to the undersigned. Nothing in this Section 16. is
intended to limit the undersigned’s right, if any, to object to such financing
in conjunction with a Proceeding.

 

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17. Upon indefeasible payment and satisfaction in full of all Senior Debt and
termination of Bank’s obligation to make Loans under the Loan Agreement, the
undersigned shall be subrogated to the rights of Bank, in accordance with
applicable equitable principles, to receive distributions with respect to the
Senior Debt until Subordinated Debt is paid in full.

18. Each of the Borrowers consents to Bank and the undersigned sharing with each
other any information either may have from time to time with respect to any of
the Borrowers. Bank and the undersigned are not obligated to share such
information, however.

19. All notices, demands, requests, consents, approvals and other communications
required or permitted hereunder must be in writing and will be effective upon
receipt. Such notices and other communications may be hand delivered, sent by
facsimile transmission with confirmation of delivery with a copy sent by first
class mail, or sent by nationally recognized overnight courier service, to a
party’s address set forth below or to such other address as any party may give
to the other in writing for such purpose:

 

To the Bank:   Fifth Third Bank   Commercial Banking   Mailcode: MD A67811  
Fifth Floor   121 South Main St.   Akron, Ohio 44308   Attention: Michael Babb  
Telephone No.: (330) 252-2065   Facsimile No.: (330) 252-2080

or at such other address or addressee as may have been furnished to the
undersigned by the Bank in writing;

 

To the Undersigned:   Canal Mezzanine Partners, L.P.   1737 Georgetown Road,
Suite A   Hudson, Ohio 44236   Attention: Shawn Wynne   Telephone No.: (330)
650-6684   Facsimile No.: (330) 528-0142

or at such other address or addressee as may have been furnished to the Bank by
the undersigned in writing;

 

To the Borrowers:   c/o DPAC Technologies Corp   5675 Hudson Parkway   Hudson,
Ohio 33236   Attention: Steve Runkel   Telephone No.: (330) 655-9002   Facsimile
No.: (330) 655-9020

or at such other address or addressee as may have been furnished by the Company
to the Bank and the undersigned in writing.

 

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20. Except for the Agreement To Subordinate Priority Of Security Interests, that
the parties hereto shall execute contemporaneously with this Agreement, this
Subordination Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties
regarding the subject matter hereof and may be amended, supplemented or modified
only by written instrument executed by Bank and the undersigned.

21. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement should
be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality, and
enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not in any way
be affected or impaired thereby.

22. This Subordination Agreement may be signed in any number of counterpart
copies and by the parties hereto on separate counterparts, but all such copies
shall constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed
counterpart of a signature page to this Subordination Agreement by facsimile
transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart.
Any party so executing this Subordination Agreement by facsimile transmission
shall promptly deliver a manually executed counterpart, provided that any
failure to do so shall not affect the validity of the counterpart executed by
facsimile transmission.

23. The undersigned and Bank represent and warrant that neither the execution or
delivery of this Subordination Agreement nor fulfillment of nor compliance with
the terms and provisions hereof will conflict with, or result in a breach of the
terms, conditions, or provisions of or constitute a default under any agreement
or instrument to which such Person or any of such Person’s assets is now
subject.

24. Any notice of acceptance of this Subordination Agreement is hereby waived.

25. This Subordination Agreement shall be binding upon the parties hereto, and
each of the parties’ successors, representatives and assigns and neither
Borrowers nor any other persons or entities whatsoever, including without
limitation any other third party donee, investor, incidental beneficiary, or any
creditor of a Borrower, shall have any right, benefit, priority, or interest
under or because of the existence of this Subordination Agreement. This
Subordination Agreement may also be assigned by Bank, in whole or in part in
connection with any assignment or transfer of any portion of the Senior Debt,
and, if requested by Bank, the undersigned shall execute and deliver in favor of
the holders of the Senior Debt one or more subordination agreements containing
terms and provisions that are substantially identical to the terms and
provisions of this Subordination Agreement. The undersigned may assign or
transfer this Subordination Agreement subject to Section 12. hereof.

26. Except as provided in Section 2. above, Borrowers agree that they will not
make any payment on any of the Subordinated Debt, or take any other action in
contravention of the provisions of this Subordination Agreement.

 

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27. This Subordination Agreement shall in all respects be interpreted, construed
and governed by the substantive laws of the State of Ohio. The undersigned
submits to the jurisdiction of the Courts of the State of Ohio or the United
States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for the purposes of
resolving any controversy relating thereto. EACH PARTY HERETO WAIVES ANY RIGHT
TO HAVE A JURY PARTICIPATE IN RESOLVING ANY DISPUTE, WHETHER SOUNDING IN
CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, BETWEEN THE PARTIES, OR EITHER OF THEM, A RISING
OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH, RELATED TO, OR INCIDENTAL TO THE RELATIONSHIP
ESTABLISHED AMONG THEM IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY NOTE OR OTHER
INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT, OR AGREEMENT EXECUTED OR DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH
OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO. THIS WAIVER SHALL NOT IN ANY WAY AFFECT,
WAIVE, LIMIT, AMEND, OR MODIFY BANK’S ABILITY TO PURSUE REMEDIES PURSUANT TO ANY
CONFESSION OF JUDGMENT OR COGNOVIT PROVISION CONTAINED IN A NOTE OR OTHER
INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT, OR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES.

28. The term “Borrower” and “Borrowers” shall, as the context may require, each
be deemed to refer to, and construed as, Borrowers and/or either of them.

29. Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended to or shall impair, as
between Borrowers and the undersigned, the obligations of Borrowers which are
absolute and unconditional, to pay to the undersigned the principal of, premium,
if any, and interest on the Subordinated Debt as and when the same shall become
due and payable in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated Debt. In any
event, this Agreement shall not be used by any trustee in bankruptcy or a
bankruptcy court or any other court, agency, or panel charged with the
responsibility of establishing the priorities of the secured creditors of the
Borrowers for the purpose of expanding upon or diminishing the rights of the
parties hereto.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this agreement as of the date
first written above.

 

CANAL MEZZANINE PARTNERS, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership   By:   Canal
Mezzanine Management, LLC,   an Ohio limited liability company   Its General
Partner     By:   Canal Holdings, LLC,     an Ohio limited liability company    
Its Managing Member       By:  

/s/ Shawn M. Wynne

      Name:   Shawn M. Wynne         Authorized Signer

Intending to be legally bound, Borrowers consent

and agree to the terms of the Subordination

Agreement as of the date first above written:

 

DPAC TECHNOLOGIES CORP By:  

/s/ Steven D. Runkel

  Steve Runkel, Chief Executive Officer QUATECH, INC. By:  

/s/ Steven D. Runkel

  Steve Runkel, Chief Executive Officer Agreed to and Acknowledged by: FIFTH
THIRD BANK By:  

/s/ Michael H. Babb

  Michael Babb, Vice President

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SCHEDULE A

SUBDEBT AGREEMENTS