IBM 610 workstation computer 3369
Anne & Lynn Wheeler I visited a DC-3 at an airshow and it was very hot and stuffy inside. I don't know how it was ventilated while in flight, although...
Yeah, the customer on one of my projects literally thinks we LIVE on his site. He gets annoyed bigtime if I don't show up daily. At one point, they wanted us working 16 hour days - we said 'no'.
Oh yeah, try explaining to them that their little train station is a hell of a lot less important that some town's water supply - they go ballistic.
"But this is IMPORTANT!!!"
"Uh, yeah, but the residents of **** township want to drink and take showers tonight. That's MORE important!"
"You can fix that later! We need this finished NOW!"
"The station doesn't open for another month, buttuming your beyond optimistic schedule is even met, which we all know it won't be because you haven't even finished installing my hardware or anything it controls."
"We still need it done now. Will you be here AFTER that field call?"
"No."
"Why not?!?"
"Because "I'm there all day, the next day and 2 days again next week. Oh yeah, friday I'm in Long Branch."
"No, you're not..."
I've hit the point where I just show up and dissappear randomly and do whatever when I can, and shoo the less important people away when they drop by to see me. I've gotten a LOT more done this way...
My other favourite is when we get a call from a customer insisting that we get their system back up right now because it's so important - but when...
And other times they have their head up their butt and insist on everything their way, even if it's not practical. Better customers listen to what we say and get better end products as a result...
**** Township (from above) insists on using a long outdated and discontinued PLC system 'because we have some parts in our inventory'. The end result is they get to know me very well because I'm forever trying to find workarounds to issues with their obsolete hardware.
Philip Nasadowski I've been on both sides of the fence--being a customer of a professional contractor...
Having not programed in it, I wouldn't know :(
Yep. And it's generally integer :)
Siemen's PLCs allow you to develop your own functions and data structures, which is nice (and handy). The abysmal bang:buck, pee poor communications, and flaky features pretty much kills that advantage. We occasionally get stuck using them (the customer insists on it) and every time, we end up wondering why we took the project on in the first place...
I know some earlier modicon stuff executed the ladder logic somewhat natively, but do any modern PLCs do that, or are they all an intel-motorola-ARM (Bristol-Babchicken uses ARM, everything else is intel it seems) and crunch in software?
IBM 610 workstation computer 3370
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