No such luck, J,
I got my Toshiba from CDW when I was doing consulting work for Omnus, Inc. in St. Charles, MO on a "..portable chicken checker.." project.
Omnus had an account with CDW, and I had seen lots of Toshiba's in the 'field' - so all was cool! As for the "..chicken checker.." - go ahead, giggle...everybody else does! And I did too, all the way to the bank.
The "chicken checker" is a portable, watertight, bozo-proof, data gathering unit - that will datalog input from two weigh scales, two temperature transmitters, and a water meter connection; by the minute, by the hour, by the day - for up to 70 days. The data is used to formulate feeds, and to tell the "husbandryman" (farmer) when to take the chickens to Tysons, etc., and get 'em "..whacked.."!
I could call up the "CC" from my Toshiba 420CDT (from anywhere in the world), check the barn temperature average and watch chickens get on/off the scales, and totalize water usage in real-time. Omnus could download the data at any time, plug it into their growth-management software - and "..voila.." the farmer gets the correct menu and max-bucks-return for his birds.
When you put 50K chicks in a building, and have 20+ buildings per farm, the $-dollars-$ get LARGE..!! Where do you think all that "finger-lickin'-good" stuff comes from, Dude..??
I actually bought all the parts for the CC, and built it on the floor of my apartment in O'Fallon (just west of StL). I had more fun than you can imagine. Hey, engineers are little weird, right! I did all the drawings and wrote most of the program sipping OJ and lounging around in my "jammies"! :-)
When you consider that I had dinner at "the Broiler" at the Station Casino St. Charles pretty often, you can finally make the connection between me, Toshiba, and BETT, if you don't stop to count birds....
See, I toldja. Engineers are just a "..little.." weird..!
John :-)
ps: ..suffice it to say, Tom will be "..connected.."!!! |
