Tom - you might wish to contact a company by the name of Intermec
Technologies Corp. They made their mark in the world with bar coding readers
and various bar code printers. However, they could possible have a device as
you need. I do know they have excellent "dirty environment" solutions for
terminal or computing devices. I have used their equipment with great
success in a  dirty, high temperature/humidity manufacturing environment.
The only problem I encountered was not grounding the race-track good enough
and experienced "FRY BABY" when lightning struck the facility....OUCH!!! and
costly....lesson learned!!!

John Hurt
Systems Manager
Baseball Express
(210) 348-7000 extension:4355
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Subject: OT: PDA's in an industrial environment


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