Re: [foxboro] Obsolescence and unavailability of 6 X 8 enunciator keypads
- From: "Brown, Stanley" <stan.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:16:48 -0400
We still use enunciator keypads in many locations. We are even putting in new
ones, as we speak.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Brown [mailto:stanb@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> tjvandew@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:43 AM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Obsolescence and unavailability of 6 X 8
> annunciator keypads
>
> We quit using them for a host of reasons:
> Cost of Ann keybds and GCIO to support them.
> Long term reliability and support.
> Tied the effective operation of the process to that specific
> location/workstation. If control room needed to evacuate and operate
> from different location the operator needs to have same functionality
> elsewhere.
> When we combined operator responsibilities we couldn't easily combine
> the Ann kybds.
> They went the same way as the old CRT touchscreens. Is anyone out
> there still using those? Just curious.
>
> Tom
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Loudermilk, Virgil:" <Virgil.Loudermilk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sender: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:05:40
> To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'<foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [foxboro] Obsolescence and unavailability of 6 X 8 annunciator
> keypads
>
> Has anyone else here faced this issue? Our furniture is built for them
> and we like them and they work well for us, so I am a little perplexed
> as to why they are disappearing as a current product.
> So is there any good alternative?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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