these things where amazing. They ran ms-dos. I wrote a program for them in pascal and we put them in stainless steel cases and sold them to McDonald's as time clocks. They had a serial port for coms. Must of solds hundreds of them. All solid state very robust.

hold the pressure washer at a distance from the shoes unlike when you wash your driveway

I think, too often, Microsoft worries and spends too much time on the minority to the detriment of the majority. IMHO

I wrote software to use these as wall-mounted employee time clocks. They were mounted in a stainless steel case. We sold hundreds of them and eventually ran out. Luckily, they were very robust, so we were buying second-hand ones toward the end. We bought a heap from Canada rail from memory.

ah ok I see what you're saying. Makes sense now.

This seems about three lines of code away from npm's left-pad