I hope your 2023 is better than "The covid years" were, Robert. I am glad you are still pursuing the classes. I hope you get full attendance! You have a lot of knowledge to share with newbies and long term table owners alike. I would actually attend one, just for fun, and probably learn a thing or two, if I could arrange for it. I am covered up with tasks that prevent such a luxury.
Way back in the mid 80's I used to write computer programs, but I was not very good at it. A friend of mine was a computer code
genius. He would look at my programming and laugh.
"Why did you use 100 lines of code, to do something that can be done in ten lines?" he would ask.
"Prove it!" I would challenge him.
He'd type away on the keyboard like Jim Carey answering prayer requests in "Bruce Almighty" and his program would do the exact same thing my program did in only ten lines of coding. I was in awe of his programming skills and knowledge of machine code. He called my programming "Spaghetti code."
He once ran a fully functional computer BBS system with over a hundred users on a TIMEX SINCLAIRE computer, just to prove that it could be done! Imagine that!
We both have good knowledge of DesignEdge, but we take different approaches. I know we both enjoy helping people.
I know a guy who is nothing less than A GOD AMONG MEN to me. His knowledge of computers, circuitry, satellites, aeronautics
and probably time travel are amazing! He tells me that the PlasmaCam controller is
"a junior high school electronics project from the Stone Age..." He says the PlasmaCam table can be controlled by a regular cnc controller with some simple programming, and bypass the hallowed $3,000.00 controller box
and the parallel cable altogether. He is so busy with other things though, and I cannot afford his rate to make that a priority.
Joe
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Have fun! 
