Thanks from the Dogfishette

Some how, in all the hullabaloo over these cards I seem to have risen to geek status. My wife wanted to thank you all as the Ravi Shankar records, the incense, and the incessant mutterings of Oooom have gone away with the departure of the "Guru" label. She says she can live with the plastic pocket protector, the clip on tie, and the incessant mutterings of snarf. Thanks guys.
Jerry

 

Let's see if we can't really change your life... let's go get you a tattoo

 

Should I send him a photo of your tattooed, pierced lady?

 

Too late George, got a nice celtic knot on my right ankle. You won't meet too many ex Tugboat Captains who don't have a little ink somewhere.

 

Are you a 100 ton six packer?

 

Pappy, Nope, I'm a 500 ton, 200 miles, radar endorsed, inspected towboat master. Too old for that crap any more, just captain on a 3500 ton dredge.

 

So you really weren't lying when you called yourself Capt.

 

thats a lot of tons. i got to drive a dump truck today, it was pretty heavy. cool huh?

 

Yes Modly, I am a real captain
Gravitar, We rely on a CF-27 to keep all those tons within 1' of where it's supposed to be. Our smallest "dump truck", a scow that holds 1700 cubic yards of mud, call it 3000 tons give or take. We position it with CF-27's as well.

 

I got to drive my mother's new (to her) Cadillac CTS from the dealer near you, all the way back to Ann Arbor. It was a smooth ride, but I still like my Cadillac better

 

i guess you've got me beat.. this thing holds 6 yards on a good day

that's pretty cool that you're using the toughbooks in a real-time control application. I've been thinking that a toughbook running a soft PLC engine and an HMI program would make a really killer control system, at an insanely cheap price. If you can give us any details about how you're doing it, I'd love to read about it

 

Gravitar, The funny thing is that everyone seems to think you need the latest and most of everything to run a computer. The truth is, most soft ware that does "real" work, other than massive crunching of numbers, is pretty lean. My biggest problem is IO as we have a lot of stuff talking to the computer. I'll make up a post, wireless external monitor modems with 3 mile range, radio tide gauges, multiple gps' talking to the same program simultainiously, I've got one pcmcia serial dongle which cost about the same as 2 good CF-28's on eBay. Bottom line, if you don't load the machine up with too much crap, the CF-27 lives, and as you say, you can't beat the price!