Hi All,
I think a thread collecting a list of small astronomy product companies that have been around a while, would be a good topic.
But there is a long list of others, such as Scopestuff, Astrosystems, Telescope Warehouse, Land-Sea-Sky, Telrad (tho Steve Kufeld's story is on line already?) etc... I'd like to compile the list to send on to Astronomy Technology Today magazine or Scopetrader.com and maybe they can start interviewing the principals and write them up as a special interest articles for us readers! There's a lot of history out there that needs to be captured.
I'll start the list with
Rigel Systems (me)
And here's a link to our early history -- I need to update it a bit, but its a start.