RE: Cold Storage Terminals

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Runnalls wrote:

>We're currently doing yet another 
>implementation in a -25C cold store. 
>Anyway, we don't want to use mobile 
>terminals this time (cost etc) so we're
>looking for fixed terminals with 24x80 
>screens (preferably, the min size is
>8x40) that are capable of surviving in 
>the cold store for all time... we
>don't expect to be removing them 
>from the store unless they are completely
>broken. 

While not recommended by IBM (they won't accept the units for service
because they are officially outside their operating environment) I have used
3196 terminals in this environment.  Select a unit, set it up in a warm area
and leave it turned on for an hour, then bring it inside the freezer.  Don't
turn it off.  Ours ran for over 2 years before needing to be replaced.  Buy
two so you have a backup handy.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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