Damn fools (was Re: Dell "Oldest PC" winner on dent)

This has been an interesting, uh, exchange of and on many viewpoints and I've found value in quite a bit of it, i.e. it makes you think. But I do take exception to Businesses, just like the independent people who run them, can only do what they want to do. You do what you want to do - always. You might hide your decisions behind the guise of "business made me do it" or "my spouse won't let me keep the 5360 in the house" or some such, but you made the decision, your choice is your choice. Businesses both big and small hide behind this "we didn't want to do it" nonsense as do individuals - but you can only do what it is you indented to do, what you want to do, unless of course you have a dirty bus connector or a bad memory module or a flaky CPU or faulty programming, eh? You list the possible decisions, the possible outcomes of each decision, the relative plus and minus of each variable - and then you decide what course of action to take, You do what you want. BTW - Does anybody know of any hobby level (cheep) GP-IB programming tools? All I want to do is control several DVM and a counter and function generator - minimal stuff for very basic bench automation. Any ideals? Thanks Roger Goswick Coca-Cola Bottling rdg