Don't forget that these machines will need to be replaced at sometime in the future. I know you are in the public sector without the ability to carry over bu if you get with your accounting folks there are ways to rathole funds for capital purchases, they jsut have to be willing to go beyond the norm to do so. We used to pay for computer workstations and growth with a payment to a trust fund of some sort , it has been 25 years since I was involved with that.

Lowell