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  • Subject: RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest V4 #416
  • From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:04:38 -0500
  • Importance: Normal

And there are cases where it simply doesn't make sense to replace a dumb
tube.  Shop floors are notoriously bad environments for PCs: extremes of
temperature and humidity, airborne foreign matter, electromagnetic
radiation.  In these cases, they might have a membrane keyboard connected to
a dumb tube for Joe the Punch Press Operator to simply mash the Enter key
when an operation is completed.  I'd love to see the corporate IT guy
explain to Joe that after each operation, Joe has to take off his glove and
wash his hand, then try to position a little mouse pointer onto a button on
the screen.

Remember, Joe's Christmas bonus is based on efficiency...

More than likely, you'd start seeing a lot of "accidental" PC failures, as
in "I accidentally smashed it with the punch press".

Joe

P.S. Yeah, you can write a PC application that only requires mashing the
enter key and that will probably mollify our friend Joe.  But the point is
that the PC will likely not last as long as the dumb tube, and will probably
cost more.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Jim Langston
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 10:32 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest V4 #416
>
>
> Some people deserve to stay on a dumb tube.
>
> We've been converting all the dumb tubes here to PCs, and we're at the
> point where we have like 2 left.  One of the last ones I converted we
> waiting on because this user was just too slow, and using a PC would
> slow her down.
>
> Well, she complained enough that we finally got her a PC.  Set up client
> Access and other programs, but all she uses is client access.
>
> Now, she's used a dumb tube here for years, logs in every day.
>
> Now she keeps asking me what her user name is.
>
> Some people deserve to stay on a dumb tube.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston

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