Point taken! I'm a fan, and I'll be visiting Daryl soon to check out his
turbo.   I also live a mile from the Tec Shop and have had some
conversations with them. BTW, in the '80s and 90's I sold CAD/CAM/CAE
systems to Boeing parts suppliers at $100k+ per "workstation".  Now folks
like you have ten times the capability on a PC and can do the complex things
you do for a few thousand dollars.  Of course, when PCs took over that
industry, I had to find another line of work!

I think it was the pallet burning for heat that prompted the "shoestring"
comment!  I envisioned you highly skilled folks chain sawing up pallets in
the deep snow and thawing your fingers out on the stove.  But that's just
being frugal, and builds character.  I'll bet you don't have A/C either.
I'm not sure which builds more character!

Stuart

Jim Akiba wrote:

PS. Stuart, I prefer the term bootstrap to shoestring, shoestring implies we
don't have resources which isn't true, we just put them all back into dev.
And in fairness if we're shoestring then everybody else is flip flops :)