PC form factor - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Jul 1999

Hi william:

In a message dated 7/2/99 11:25:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, aw288(a)osfn.org 
writes:

...
  As one who has spend quite a bit of time in industrial
environments, I
  would say that MIS department was a bunch of Bozos for not getting
  industrial machines. Basically ANY floppy that spends its life at a
  loading dock is going to die very quickly, followed in short order by the 
  power supply and keyboard. 
Bozos, to say the least.  But do you think that a bunch of mainframe guys in 
1988 would listen to a lowly PC person?  Besides, the IBM guys told them the 
PCs would be okay, and they had already spent $20 per unit on those plastic 
prophylactic keyboard skins . . . ;>)  After IBM replaced the drives with 
units which had the flap, they only croaked once a year instead of every 
three months . . . and always in the middle of reading disk three of a five 
disk software upgrade which I had sent them . . 

My most entertaining project ever.

Regards,

Glen Goodwin
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