Great q dr herb. really made me think back to my dev days.. the good old days.

it would have to be about 20 yrs ago now, I was writing Turbo C code for the Z80A on an S-100 card bus system that was running a dual station quartz crystal x-ray machine. I pulled an all nighter working on statistical analysis of the brag angles of quartz bars being xrayed, the shipping company arrived at about 8am and started crating the machine I was working on, another code change and another live test on the machine as the shippers were building a shipping crate around it. The EPROM took 45 minutes to erase and burn with new code and by 9am we had final code and a sealed crate. ahhh, the good old days, I really miss pulling all nighters coding.

the crate was packed and shipped out, the machine worked flawlessley for years and I moved on to more interesting things in other countries. It sure felt good that morning after working 24+ hrs straight to ship, and I mean literally shipping something physical to another country and have it arrive and work.

and now I script...

@harlock123 -> brilliant solution to a difficult problem.