Re: [foxboro] V8 Letterbug Configurator

I thought it was "High Performance System", but I like Jeremy's answer too
:)
Hmm...  Your techies have 8" floppies and thicknet in their drawers?  Sounds
like some old techies!

I demo'd I/A on iphone last week for our operations and metallurgy guys.  OK
- really it was DM on VNC on iPhone, but still entertaining...



On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM, David Johnson <drjohn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Terry,
>
> While I am still quite wealthy, recent events in the market have
> taken my net worth from incalculable to merely astronomical.  And
> although not quite as tech savvy as my advisor on all things tech Mr.
> Milum, I liked letterbugs.  I thought that having letterbugs and slot
> / rack independence was better than PLC style I/O addressing.  I also
> have loaded the HPS configurator (what does HPS stand for anyway)
> into a windows mobile Samsung phone where it fails completely.  So
> there you go.  COTS is fine as long as you don't need to use it for
> more than a few years.  Open any techies desk drawer and look at all
> of the debris:  Imation superdisks, 8", 5.25" 3.5" floppies,
> unsupported flash memory cards (various flavors), thick wire
> ethernet, thin wire ethernet, fiber connectors.  And almost all of it
> came and went since the I/A system came about 21 years ago.  In the
> future I/A will stand for Iphone / Applications and the whole plant
> will run on those.  I was gonna get an Iphone, but those things are
> expensive.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
>


 
 
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