The future of our hobby (was Re: ImageDisk project is canceled)

[William Donzelli]

> At operating costs of 600 USD / hour a FIB machine is probably not for 
> the avarage hobbyist.
> And we wont go into space issues and the rather nasty chemicals that 
> are used in the FIB or in opening up plastic packages.

But of course, in a few years some nut is going to have one
operating in his garage for a lot less!

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org