RE: Some fodder for marketing, perhaps

["Ira Chandler" <ira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The vulnerability of hard drives to impact and crashing, the susceptibility
of PC internal components to EMI, RFI, and power fluctuations also make them
inappropriate.

Ira Chandler
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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: Some fodder for marketing, perhaps

Two factors I have seen that prohibit PCs on the production floor are:

1) A hostile environment.  This includes air quality, temperature 
controls, near-by moving objects from fork lifts to thrown packages, and 
workers with no love for the company or its property.

2) Lost production while people use the PCs to play games, do personal 
stuff, and spend company time to make a case for an Internet connection 
so they can download porn, music, and surf to e Bay.

Until that changes, I can not see durable and cheap terminals 
disappearing. ...