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Posted by Andrew Mawson on September 13, 2006, 5:55 pm
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> Andrew Mawson wrote:
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> > Panasonic Toughbooks of the earlier varietes (133 Mhz pentiums)
are
> > now very cheap on eBay and are not only spill proof, but also
shock
> > resistant. Loads arround as they were used by BT and Gasboards for
> > engineering control.
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> > AWEM
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> They sure are Andrew,if you have enough time in your day to wait on
> them booting up.The last BT guy that was at my broadband line had
one
> and he reckoned he switched the computer on,walked down to the
carpark
> and got his van,back home and had a cup of coffee all while it was
> booting.In fairness they have a lot on them and they are
> reliable.Apparently the first job is to download his work for the
day.
> Mark.
>
I have a slow one that I use as the DNC interface to my Bridgeport
Interact 1 running Win2K. As I turn on both at the same time, by the
time the Bridgy has gone through its start up sequence and travelled
the home switches the Toughbook is just ready to log on. No real
problem as it couldn't work till then anyway, and so far it has
survived all the swarf and coolant that gets splashed on it, not to
mention being poked by a wet finger covered in curly bits of aluminium
! Only problem I've had is that the PCMCIA slots don't provide quite
enough power supply current to the slots so not all wireless lan
cards will work ok, but I now know which do and stick to them.
AWEM
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