Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:01:24 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199912301601.JAA24404@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <59598.946569253@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <199912301550.IAA24298@mt.sri.com> <59598.946569253@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> >> >> I said military version, I didn't say mil-spec. > >> > > >> >It goes without saying that to be a military version, it must also be > >> >mil-spec. > >> > >> Fortunately for Danish tax-payers our government doesn't work that way :-) > > > >Then why was it heavier than the standard version? Otherwise, they > >could have used the 'stock' versions (which we ended up doing, but then > >we added titanium outer cases custom made for SRI to make them more > >rugged). > > Well, Danish Millitary bought the ruggedized military version from IBM > and saved themselves all that trouble :-) Like I said before, IBM has no 'ruggedized' version of the Thinkpad, and we looked into it. IBM told us we had to build our own. I've got lots of stories w/regards to that, including a number of 'ruggedized' boxes that were sent back with hardware problems due to soldiers breaking them intentionally by dumping sand i nthem. IBM 'fixed' the boxes by replacing the innards, and then removing our old cases and using stock cases on them. We had to put holes in the cases for wiring up external batteries, as well as to add mounting holes for the titanium add-ons. Interestingly enough, they actually 'replaced' most of the parts of the entire system, and didn't just send us back new laptops. After this happened about 50 times, we finally got it into their heads that the holes in the cases were intentional, so they quit replacing them with un-modified cases, since we ended up drilling holes in the newly replaced cases all the time, so it was more work for us and IBM. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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