Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Anyone still using a serial dumb terminal? Date: 17 Mar 2014 10:30:34 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <38kgva-c7n1.ln1@news.chingola.ch> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 6K9ATSFn1DAf0RcGRIyJTQmnmQGpCBcDoDL1gnSsyeMlmJV0bi Cancel-Lock: sha1:JihMyWVvxnIIa1xR/QXS5LI6cuY= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1706 On 2014-03-16, Paul Sture wrote: > When I worked in a factory there was nothing better for production line > use than a VT of one flavour or another. We blocked off setup keys to > stop users fiddling with them so they were pretty maintenance free. You'd > probably have to do quite a bit of locking down on a PC to achieve the > same level of robustness. I used to do process control automation for a crisp (US: chip) and biscuit (US: cookie) manufacturer. We had ruggedised VT100 clones with custom keyboards in the factories for the operatives to use. I imagine a PC would have lasted a couple of days tops in the hot, greasy, "dirty" environment of a crisp (US: chip) factory. -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 3rd day of Discord in the YOLD 3180 A non-empty Hausdorff topological space is a continuous image of the unit interval if and only if it is a compact, connected, locally connected second-countable space.