oh so your a techie...

you sound guys think your so special with your 6 foot 500 pound consoles lol.

take a look at the lighting console i used to run.

Product Features

10000 channels (devices)
4000, 8000, 12,000 and 16,000 outputs/parameters
Dedicated master playback fader pair
10 definable motorized faders, with 30 pages of control
999 cue lists
200 active playbacks
300 submasters
3 programmable grand masters
Dedicated pan/tilt or XYZ encoders, 4 pageable encoders
2 15" LCD touchscreens
High-density live and blind displays
Electronic magic sheets
Net3T (ACN based) and ETCNet2T native
Multiple MIDI and SMPTE Inputs
Client/server networking and synchronized backup
Offline programming on PC (Vista or XP) and native on Macintosh (OS X Power PC or Intel)
Data-laundering from obsession, express/ion, emphasis and Strand 500/300 series show files via ASCII
12 discrete on-line users with partitioned control
6 - Multipurpose USB bus (pointing devices, keyboard, touchscreens, flash drives)

dont ask me how the facility manager talked my school into giving him 15 grand for a console. oh no wait, we had 15 VariLite 500's and 15 VL 1000's too