You're working off a statement made almost a month and a half ago when they only had 1 assembly room... but hey, it's BFL, they never change, right? I heard the record was well over 600 units, but I'm sure you'll take that with a grain of salt as well.
I think part of the problem here is you fail to understand this is not a 1 person operation from start to finish. You need the programmers, the card assemblers, the unit assemblers, the case assemblers, the final assemblers, QA and the testers. If all they had to do was flash a card and ship it like some companies (IF they had chips ), they'd not need 80% of the people.
You don't have to convince me that BFL has the worst, most complicated, slow assembly process.
You also don't have to convince me that things may have gotten better but they weren't smart enough to communicate it to their customers.
So just curious when you were there, there were 16 assemblers. Who/how exactly have you been kept up to date on the addition of assemblers and the fact that they got over 600 built once or twice.
Who shared that data with you?
I don't doubt what you say, I am just curious who shared it with you.
Technically, no one, as I actually saw it myself on their board. I was in KC recently and stopped in to talk to Josh one day. They are up to 4 assembly rooms, not counting the off-site Jalapenos. They were actually having pizza for lunch that day that had been purchased and sent in from a customer.