RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest V2 #510

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

Holy moly.   This amazes me.  I believe it and all, but it amazes me.  

It is an awful temptation to ask if IBM handles your firm's publicity. 
Sorry.  That remark is out of line.  

I'd sure love to see a story or web page about these applications!


In <000e01bdd518$941e3160$49f8d6d0@candy.roiconnect.com>, on 08/31/98 
   at 03:50 PM, "Ira Chandler" <ira@roiconnect.com> said:

>       > ...
>       > If you want to calculate the "Schroedinger wave equation and
>       > Mandelbrot Polynomial while simultaneously controlling a robot
>       > that is performing open heart surgery, or design an enhancement 
>      > to the space shuttle", then by all means use Unix.  If you want 
>      > to run your business then you want the Ultimate Business Server 
>      > - an AS/400.
>      > Neil Palmer                                AS/400~~~~~      

>Bull!  We control stuff in real time with the AS/400.
>The HELL you can't control a robot -

>Ya wanna talk about robots, we control conveyor
>systems and diverters with ** SPLIT-SECOND ** response for 
>companies like London Fog, Maxwell Shoe, JC Whitney, 
>Duck Head, Seiko Watch, Reynolds Metals, TRW, Mikasa,
>Archway Cookies (my favorite, they send cookies!) 
>and hundreds of others...

>One install has the AS/400 REPLACING $280,000 worth of 
>conveyor control stinking PCs running NT, with a software
>solution running totally on the AS/400 for about $100,000.
>The conveyor company who put in the $2M conveyor system 
>was not happy about losing the control layer to the 
>DINOSAUR AS/400.  We control 35 decision points with 
>divert responses in the 200ms range!

>At SEIKO, we control their pick-to-light system from the
>AS/400, as well as taking the carton ID and weight from 
>an inline scale and calculating the divert destination
>based on the validity of the weight.  IN 160 MILLISECONDS!

>Screw UNIX.
>Screw NT.

>Ira Chandler, Technical Services, ROI Corporation
>ira@roiconnect.com   800-396-7641 x512  www.roiconnect.com

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