• 1991 - Adam starts SingleChips in April, buys SmartPlex for $1, SmartPlex development, only one old PathTechnics client
• 1992 - SmartPlex development, relationship with only client falls apart by summer, only client pulls the plug, hard times after Aug 1992
• 1993 - Hard times

Conclusion: NEVER have all your eggs in one basket...

• 1994 - Hard times first 8 months, Adam fixes VCRs for a living, 61 Southworth was a video store in '94 and Adam was in the doghouse, checkout the next link, Pembina needs some assembly help, déjà vu #1 on August 8th, hired on the 10th, to "assemble" the "Industry Standard PLED" company elephants, I mean dataloggers, $12/hour, no retainer, no contract, LoggerLand 1
• 1995 - Pembina, LG, no retainer, no contract, big raise, let's build our own data logger, conspicuous absence of logos in this PDL1 proposal, dopey sopey is trying his tricks, company can't afford to pay Adam more than $15/hour, but it can afford to pay 15K for this "industry-standard-hunk-of-junk from Alberta that never saw water, I mean batteries held together with duct tape, couldn't fit it in the PLED cylinder, HART thing fiasco, manual? we need one of these, what a nightmare, here is a zip file with pertinent files and the xls file with the test results, desperate need for someone to believe in what I'm doing down here, maybe one of these people: PortC office employees 1995/05
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
• 1996 - Pembina, LG, no retainer, no contract, "PLED" work continues but proves to be a dead end, very short conversation @ PortC office:
  CD: When you finish doing, whatever it is you are doing down here, and go out there and be a big shot and..., you're not going to forget about us "little people", are you?
  AG: You got it, CD... "When and us", not "if and me", sounds sincere to me, PDL1 proposal approved, PDL1 board, PDL1 design, PDL1 built by October, 2 of the PDL1's installed in the lake in November
• 1997 - Pembina-TLM, LG, no retainer, no contract, PDL1's found alive and well in the spring, what if Adam bolts?, CD puts up a big fight to invite the "contractors" to LG's retirement party, and that's against "Company Policy", but actually wins!!!, and subsequently everybody including the "contractors" had a great time at the Ukrainian Hall in Welland, "PLED" now really expensive 316SS fish habitat, Pembina conveniently "forgets" about their contractual obligations and "bolts" out of the lake without paying for PDL development, but Adam gets a scope, a multimeter and a frequency generator, so rapid PDL development continues, PDL2 Board, PDL3 Board , LG retirement, letter to Hibby, answer is: "we don't do that", LTB warning from National Semiconductor, maker of the NSC800, the CPU chip in the PDL. LTB = Life Time Buy = Buy any amount while you still can. So SCi bought 100 of them... on the Pembina account of course
  
  Conclusion: R&D never really stops for us R&D people.
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

• 1998 - TLM, Hibby, no retainer, no contract, Loggerland2, rapid PDL development, PDL4 board and PDL manual, give us an arm, a leg, and your first born please, I don't think so, Trustco-Fiasco, away from the lake after September @ fish farm in Pt Ryerse, switching concepts around the lake now dead but lake-related development continues in a fish farm
  
  

  

  

  

  
• 1999 - TLM, Hibby, no retainer, no contract, away from lake the whole year @ fish farm in Pt Ryerse, CDi99 which is also known around here as CD rain cheque and Windows software get developed here at the fish farm, while in the mean time Port Maitland LoggerLand 2 is trashed along with the PDL, goodbye PDL and goodbye loggerland2, hello loggerland3 and hello CDi
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  Conclusion: Hibby: How many of these LoggerLand things do we have? Just one? (You know, along the line, "How many boat captains do we have? Just one? - Brilliant!!!)

Zzzz...

• 2000 - TLM, no retainer, no contract, away from the lake @ fish farm in Port Ryerse until July, JD gone, $50/hour here and there after Danster tests with aluminum plunger lifts and Danster paper presentations, here is the html version, Adam builds the CDi2.P6 with a z8s180 processor to replace the NSC800N in the PDLx boards, on his own time, at his own expense
  
• 2001 - TLM, no retainer, no contract, $50/hour here and there, Port Maitland station prototype sample 1, sample 2, sample 3, Some P5s, Olympia Restaurant lease, CDi2.P6 development, CDi99 Libby Flowmeter, 10 P5 (PDL5 Windows software, eventually renamed WinRTMS), the two downhole recorders from LoggerLand2, ~10K each, magically appear on the rig, apparently under new ownership
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
• 2002 - TLM, no retainer, no contract, Danster plunger lift presentation in Calgary, Olympia lease, CDi2.P6 development, 20 P5 (WinRTMS) #11 to 30, Loggerland3 operational but a little different than the other Loggerlands, Sorensen visit @ Loggerland3, SCi $2,400/m after July, CDi2 gets tested on the Andrea Marie, WinRTMS replaces the old DOS software SCiRTMS, take 1 and take 2
  
  

  

  

  

  

  
• 2003 - TLM, SCi $2,400/m, Olympia Restaurant lease, 10 P5 (WinRTMS) #31 to 40
• 2004 - TLM, SCi $2,400/m, Low Frequency stuff, here is some of it, Olympia Restaurant lease, 9 P5 (WinRTMS) Methanol Injectors #41 to 46, 54 to 56, 10 P5 (WinRTMS) #47 to 53, 57 to 59, wild rumors TLM will "bolt" from the lake eventually, many full time "contractors" naturally want to become "employees", divers' union, divers become employees, some of us stay on as contractors and some of us find out our job has become redundant immediately after the Christmas party which we had been invited to attend, but had ultimately chosen not to
• 2005 - TLM, early January CD redundancy?, "It was a corporate decision", yeah right! TLM can afford to turn 20 or so divers into employees, but it can't do the same for the "contractor" Receptionist whom was actually running "Accounts Payable" as early as September, 1995, hi Janice, thank you for being so kind to me back in the day, Jan 28 PO, (special PO), SCi $2,400/m, 4 P5 (WinRTMS) Plunger Lift #70 to 73, 10 P5 (WinRTMS) #60 to 69
• 2006 - TLM, SCi $2,400/m, Franko Tanko on the scene, January meeting at Ross's house about switching, rapid development, 15 P5 (WinRTMS) #74 to 88, 3 VR, Variable Reluctance, NPT, (Switcher), 3-cylinder, gas lift Injectors #89 to 91, 2007 drilling program cancelled, but switching is resurrected after being dead since 1998, initial Switcher software development starts here because of the gas lift injectors
• 2007 - TLM, SCi $2,400/m, Switcher software development, 13 VR, NPT, (Switcher), 3-cylinder, Gas Lift Injectors #92 to 104
  
  Conclusion: Lucky for the "Indonesia Factor" I didn't hear what had transpired at PortC office in early January 2005 until the Spring of 2007, this whole story would have a very different ending if I had heard in time, and all this "corporate decision" did is hurt someone in a "kick them when they're down" fashion, but life goes on and I admit it, I do get some pleasure thinking someone was ultimately outsmarted four years before they even showed up down here, see 1996 above. Yeah, holding people back from achieving their potential was developed into an art form in there, the anger somehow kept me together for the next four years, and that's exactly what the digital stuff by mid-2011 is... distilled anger. You can't change the past, but you can sure change the future. So, they liked lots of my prototypes, at prices below parts cost, PDL5 parts cost was just under $6,000, sold for $5,000 because I considered them prototypes, which of course is the reason I never printed any ID on them. And so, it was really the Olympia Restaurant that supported the R&D... Why did I put up with this? Because I know what this is, here is a simplified pictorial for those who don't, time to adopt the Keller Philosophy: Son, you are free if you do not have to suck up to asses. You are rich when you can tell them that. You are wise if you do not have to tell them anymore.

• 2008 - TLM, new boss, SCi $2,400/m, $5,000/m after June 2008, goodbye NPT, hello machine cylinder, 3 VR (Switcher) Plunger Lift #105 to 107
• 2009 - TLM, same new boss, SCi $5,000/m, start of CDi3.P7 digital switcher development, 7 VR, machine cylinder, (Switcher), 2-cyl., Plunger Lift #108 to 114, prototype master and remote modem work for Port Alma, prototype modem board
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
• 2010 - TLM - Dundee, 3-year CONTRACT, heavy CDi3.P7 development, Keller mania, Morpeth tower 900MHz dish antenna installation, trouble in paradise, I mean trouble with the CNC machine shop, I mean CNC shop gone!

• 2011 - Dundee, goodbye CNC shop, hello Steve-O-Meister, lake datalogging operations go digital and that's a major event, can finally see light at the end of the tunnel, digital switchers finally get delivered and installed in June, Keller-digital CDi3.P7s 115 to 119, Port Alma remote/master modem stuff and tower/rotor/antenna installation
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• 2012 - Communications and internet work, Port Alma remote stuff, PVC box assembly finalization, repairs, cylinders, VR differential stuff gets replaced by Keller differential transmitters, déjà vu #2 here, universe says: wake up you idiot!!!, so I did but it took a while, all working switchers get removed just before winter to get batteries charged, well, nobody really believes they are going to make it through winter...
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• 2013 - Flyport internet work, all removed-before-winter switchers get installed, not a single one works and that means solenoid trouble, solenoids in the freezer, 3-year contract expires but doesn't get renewed and someone in middle management discovers http://www.singlechips.com...
• 2014 - Rochester, Ontario internet and communications work, solenoids figured out after Adam turns solenoid calibration into science, switchers installed again late spring and summer, P5 switcher firmware 6214, PortC office gone, well, nobody will miss the place as it had morphed into PortD last decade or so, you know, "D" for "Downer"...
• 2015 - More switcher upgrading, Flyport Pro work, Switcher3 work, Lake Road Map, all switchers installed mid-2014 are still clicking away in late 2015
• 2016 - Switchers got through consecutive winter #2, Zombie Data Logger (ZDL) work, sample1, sample2, sample3, 2 new boards, CDi3.P7 and CDi3.LE, goodbye reading cylinder and goodbye to all kinds of things, CDi3.FTe morphs into something else so lake Erie R&D finally finished, in a synchronistic manner of course...
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• 2017 - Switchers got through consecutive winter #3, breaking all kinds of records in the process, ZDL5 Switcher in the works, you know, these ones come from the PDL cemetery, ZDL5.FTe switcher prototype installed June 9th, ZDL5.RMe under development, ZDL5.FTe proves out in the field, time to put some road signs in the lake Erie tech roadmap document,











so SCi makes it into row 17 in the August 15th list of unsecured creditors, and that is a major breach of trust on a personal level, unfortunately, but then again, it isn't Dundee Energy over at FTI, it is DELP and DOGL over at FTI, so time for the PDL to finish becoming ZDL, and time for the ZDL Simple Flowmeter, technical support and licensing permanently terminated for Dundee, as of 2017/11/21, further, individuals who survived the summer 2014 PortC office closure and who were also TLM employees in January 2005, cannot have anything to do with this technology, equipment and programming, ever, at any price.
2018 - Goodbye "offshore" and goodbye "marine", hello corrosion, goodbye "Switcher3", hello CDiComm and hello CDiChart, goodbye Singlechips Inc., hello Singlechips International Research Society AKA SCi.RS, FlyportPro becomes internet plunger lift, Loggerland4 finally active end of March, Loggerland5 now in sight, operation "flip the plastic" successful June 7th, new looks for the elbows...