Donna Garverick wrote:
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> Wyell Grunwald wrote:
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> > Most of the places I have worked have terminals out on the manufacturing floor ON PURPOSE.  A PC cannot take the abuse, extreme temperatures, dust, etc that a terminal can.  In one place I worked, they went through a dozen keyboards a week because hot metal was splashed on them.  It is a whole lot cheaper to replace terminals than PC's, and a whole lot more cost effective.  Also, some floor workers are very computer illiterate, and teaching them how to run a PC is a monumental task.  Handling a terminal is enough of a challenge.  And finally, the security is so much better - no access to floppies or hard drives.  (Remember the hard drive that contained weapon information that "disappeared" behind a copy machine ?)
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> csy has been wondering if folks still need to have dtc's support on 3000s.  i think this is a pretty good answer :-)         - d


Arcane side note: DTCs are also used to talk to various serial devices
like automated scales fer instance.