It was tricky, we really desperately needed cash - making things gets seriously expensive, especially when you need to buy hundreds of thousands of pounds of components up-front... we had a very understanding bank manager, but it was starting to take rather more than that! We did go looking for various types of investment but at the time everyone was after a dot com to invest in - a company that actually *made* stuff was so last millenia - and we didn't manage to get any traction at all.

Obviously, we were pretty naive thinking that a big company would have everything really sorted out otherwise they could never have got that big. Turns out they were way more dysfunctional that we could have ever imagined...

Hugo