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Originally Posted by tbpew
that Compaq luggable was my pride and joy from 1985-86. Westinghouse had just introduced their APL (advanced Program loader) where you could actually use a portable computer as interface to Programmable Logic Controllers. IT WAS Da BOMB!
Our PLC's were playing catch-up but our program loader rocked the PLC world and was a users best friend. Overlay software was somewhere around a whopping $1100.00---ouch!, and very cleverly encriypted to only allow an installation if some kind of electronic fingerprint got moved off one computer --back onto the floppy and then you could install the software on a different box.
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That would have been da bomb indeed. No Labview to play with back then lol. I remember having to manually add registration keys to a dos-based gui we had for programming stepper motor controllers with norton utilities whenever we sold a copy, and that program was fairly advanced then, useless for the most part, but advanced.
It probably still worked fine after that, the thing wieghed a ton but I remember it was durable.
. Talk about the horror of seeing a dear work friend abused, I looked out an airplane window and saw some baggage handling monster grab and jerk the case off the transport cart and sent the keyboard swinging around the tarmac by its little acordian connector cable...then they were clueless as to how to place it back into position so it arrives with rope and tape holding the keyboard onto the case.
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