Jason Dunn
06-13-2002, 02:59 PM
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,71940,00.html">http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,71940,00.html</a><br /><br />Interesting to see the military using such cutting-edge technology. Speaking of the military, I saw Black Hawk Down last night and was blown away - tragic on so many levels. Superb movie!<br /><br />"The U.S. Air Force has taken tablet PCs higher than Bill Gates ever imagined and so far has not encountered the "blue screens" cursed by ground-bound Windows users. The Air Force quickly adapted a commercial tablet PC to provide critical targeting and navigation information to aircrews operating over Afghanistan in Operation Enduring Freedom, fielding pen-input systems to combat aircrews in just three months. It's a turnaround tough in the corporate world and almost unheard of in the government where acquisition and deployment cycles are measured in years. The system also can go a long way toward preventing the kind of "friendly fire" incidents that resulted in casualties in Operation Desert Storm and early in the Afghanistan campaign. <br /><br />The Windows 2000-based tablet PC system has experienced "no blue screens" despite rigorous in-flight testing that put it through better than 3G aerial maneuvers, according to Robert Severino, president of Position Integrity LLC, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based company that developed the Pilot/Aircrew Management (PACMAN) system." Source: Various