[Elecraft] OT - Final edition before release

[Fred Jensen]

While the Division Chief Engineer and an the obligatory cake and "Happy 
Birthday" in the conference room, each singing in his or her own key, I 
was presented with a framed notice:

"There comes a point in every project when one must shoot the Engineers 
and go into production."  I hung it over my desk.

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 1/17/2020 9:21 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
>  The development of software reminds me of the following story.    I 
> view software and to some extent, hardware, to follow this process.
>
> As the story goes:   The city fathers were building a new government 
> building and wanted to have impressive bronze doors at the 
> entrances.   In order to make their selections, they boarded a bus and 
> traveled to a foundry that made bronze doors.   As they toured the 
> foundry they observed the many steps used in the process of making the 
> doors.   At the point they came to near the end of the process, they 
> noticed a fellow that was polishing a very large door.  One of the 
> city fathers stepped over to the fellow, admired the gleam of the  
> highly polished door, and asked "how do you know you are finished?". 
> The old fellow never looked up, but kept on polishing, and replied 
> "sonny, we never get through, they just come take it away".
>
> And that's the story of software.
>
> 73
>
> Bob, K4TAX