Return-Path: Received: from www07.netaddress.usa.net ([204.68.24.27]) by truman.olsusa.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 0-44819U2500L250S0) with SMTP id AAA4088 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 16:20:00 -0500 Received: (qmail 25035 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Oct 1998 21:20:11 -0000 Message-ID: <19981030212011.25034.qmail@www07.netaddress.usa.net> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:20:10 From: Dan Schaefer To: lancair.list@olsusa.com Subject: Microsystems X-Mailing-List: lancair.list@olsusa.com Mime-Version: 1.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> << Lancair Builders' Mail List >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> To all who wrote about the continuing problems with their Microsystem equipment. Ain't it just too much fun being the Qualification Test Lab for a company? And on your nickel, too! Over here in the side of the business where toilet seats are said to cost $600, a system is at least completely qualified by rigorous testing to meet it's specified requirements before it goes on an airplane. That way, the bugs are banished once, up front, instead over and over again on each new installation. (For the toilet seats, let's not go there)! It should be that way for us too, but too often a new gizmo is just too "neat" to pass up and guess who pays the price? A real problem in a situation like we've been reading on the LML is that the company may never get their act completely together and disappear, guess who's the stuckee. Happens all the time, and more often than it should, in the homebuilt arena. Seriously, Marv is right about the dangers of putting all one's eggs in the one basket (even if they were thoroughly tested and proven eggs) and how unlikely it is for a lot of independent systems failing at the same time. If you put yourself in the position to lose one or more critical functions due to a single-point-failure, that's a bad thing. Bottom line: Do you want to fly or do you want to constantly be testing something? Your choice. Dan Schaefer N235SP ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1