Funny! In the '80s Tulip Computers NV[1] was a Dutch computer manufacturer that manufactured PC clones.
Yes, I got a tour of their factory back in the day when I was editor for a number of IT-related magazines. Close to everything was made there in that factory from the metal housing for the machines to the circuit boards - photoresist, exposure, etching, cleaning, printing, conformal coating, through the pick-and-place machine, through the wave solder bath, testing and mounting in the chassis. In the Netherlands, in a relatively modest factory hall. If it could work then - and it did, for a while - it should be possible to do that now without the compulsive urge to outsource everything.
Was thinking that too.. :)
Cute of you to think that the american developers behind this would care about that.
I expected this thread to be about a vintage computer from them when I clicked.
I'm pretty sure I had seen some promotional material of theirs the last time I was in NL, so I didn't know they had gone out of business in 2008/2009 already.