MartinRf, is it something in the water in Sweden that gives you folks such disdain for anything American? Perhaps it's the politics (that many of us don't agree with) - something else?

Nobody here has denied that Playstation went through some changes and evolution but you would have us believe that it was a fruitless and unimportant design when it was clearly one of the first of it's kind and quite an engineering and human powered marvel. I've had the pleasure of discussing the boat and some of the design issues with Pete Melvin while in California a couple of years ago and found many of the challenges they faced and the methods they came up with to work around them quite fascinating.