Impressive tour, depressing tale

Last week Tom Sharpe, vice president of SMT Corp. – a privately-held electronics distributor in Newtown, Conn., gave me a damn nice tour of his secure and clean facility – from the electro-static discharge (ESD) monitoring device and state-of-the-art electronic part testing equipment right down to the snazzy Starbucks coffee machine and hundreds of vintage World War I and World War II posters.