Panasonic makes a laptop (fairly expensive) that most, if not all HAZMAT units that I know of use -- can't rememeber the model number, but is seems to be impervious to everything but volcanos. I will query a HAZMAT friend and see if I can get the model foryou. Aloha Wayne, NH6K -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PAF-5] A rugged laptop Listers, I have searched the PAF archives and evidently didn't come up with a search term that worked. Someone wrote within the last couple of months and related that laptops were used in his business and they had to be rugged (probably not the correct word). He mentioned a brand that fit the bill, but the one I remembered doesn't come up in the archives, so I guess I remembered wrong. Can anyone remember this posting and help me find it? Thanks Lila ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Lila, Panasonic "toughbooks" are probably what you are thinking of. (You may have seen the commercials on TV, and yes you CAN drop them, they are that tough although I wouldn't want to try it out after spending the money on them) http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/products.asp Besides HAZMAT, the military uses them too. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Jones Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 12:58 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [PAF-5] A rugged laptop Panasonic makes a laptop (fairly expensive) that most, if not all HAZMAT units that I know of use -- can't rememeber the model number, but is seems to be impervious to everything but volcanos. I will query a HAZMAT friend and see if I can get the model foryou. Aloha Wayne, NH6K -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PAF-5] A rugged laptop Listers, I have searched the PAF archives and evidently didn't come up with a search term that worked. Someone wrote within the last couple of months and related that laptops were used in his business and they had to be rugged (probably not the correct word). He mentioned a brand that fit the bill, but the one I remembered doesn't come up in the archives, so I guess I remembered wrong. Can anyone remember this posting and help me find it? Thanks Lila

Kevin R. Phillips wrote: > > and yes you CAN drop them, they are that > tough although I wouldn't want to try it out after spending the money on > them) (G) The concept there brings back fond memories ... Remember back in the '60s when Corning put out dinnerware called Centura? It too was advertised as unbreakable. One night we were in an up-scale department store when we overheard a saleman with a potential customer. Store had that new fancy red, stone, tile in the Kitchenwares section. Salesman was holding a dinnerplate when he uttered "guaranteed unbreakable..." and flung the plate on the floor -- the place shattered into a hundred or so shards. Cheryl -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above.