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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Anyone still using a serial dumb terminal? |
| Date | 2014-03-17 10:30 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <boo16aFchd2U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <le7l82$oqt$1@dont-email.me> <leahtj$bbp$3@solani.org> <38kgva-c7n1.ln1@news.chingola.ch> |
On 2014-03-16, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> 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.
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