Back in the early 1970's at the university I used to hang out in the rapidly developing IC fab shop with a fellow student who was an EE major. It was a unique

Back in the early 1970's at the university I used to hang out in the rapidly developing IC fab shop with a fellow student who was an EE major. It was a unique time when individual innovation was at its highest point, and crushing financial pressure nationwide was only beginning to force the downward trend since then. This was pretty interesting to me as a chemist, and there were even more parallels once I went to work for a company specializing in emerging chemicals, where unending experimentation and innovation was essential to bring yields up to tolerable levels from starting points which were barely feasible. Similar to emerging semiconductor processes. With all the effort Zeloof has put in, apparently single-handedly for the most part, in his garage he does have what looks like a more advanced facility now than they had then. With the ability to make repairs and do maintenance on the comercially available equipment of the time, to a degree and with determination that the leading professors did not even usually possess. This is the kind of person that needs to be protected from potential disasters that could derail his continuous progress, especially with such an early head-start. Very much of an outlier, but there are uncountable others who have always had to wait for the least bit of opportunity which never arose in any realistic way.