scott wrote:

> Yeh, guess you don't want to be held responsible when it breaks for 
> something mission critical, better to be able to pass the responsibility 
> on (even if they haven't updated their software since Win3.1!).
> 
> Still, you could encourage them to make some updates (like using USB 
> instead of serial, and writing software for XP/Vista rather than 
> Win3.1), or buy the system from a more up to date supplier that is less 
> hacky.

Well now, if you want a couple of thermometers and a data logger, 


it's mission critical. What are you gonna do? You simply *have* to have 
this thing, so basically you have to pay whatever they charge you. Which 
is probably _why_ they charge you so much. ;-)

I wasn't in any way involved in the purchase process, but I gather that 
we were quoted tens of thousands of pounds by various parties, and we 
eventually went with the lowest bidder. As far as I know...

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