Check the military versions of what you are looking for. They (the military)
have some pretty strict environments. Not sure were you would look for
vendors to the military. But check with your equipment VAR and he may know.

James

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> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:32 PM
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> Subject: OT: PDA's in an industrial environment
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> Does anyone have experience with Palm's or other PDAs in a dirty, dusty,
> oily industrial environment?  I have a client who wants to have his
> employees stop filling out paperwork and enter data instead into a PDA or
> even a notebook.  However, these guys work in really dirty places and the
> client is concerned about how well PDAs or notebooks will work under these
> conditions.  Are there hardened versions of these things?
>
> Tom Brandt
> Northtech Systems, Inc.
> http://www.northtech.com
>