>Sure, you'll have people like the author, the person I'm replying to and you who will be complaining their butts off about clapped out equipment every step of

>Sure, you'll have people like the author, the person I'm replying to and you who will be complaining their butts off about clapped out equipment every step of the way but if your operation is designed to roll with the punches then at the end of the day you'll be 99% as capable as the people with new equipment who rely on that instead of being able to roll with it and fix things fast. Must like in software, the people doing the work and the people who choose what work is done and with what budget are almost separate circles on a Venn diagram. Please, as a wise man once said, take your assumptions and gate-keeping and shove them somewhere unpleasant.