Good day Mr.. Mindlin,
I have looked with interest at your project and thought of a solution for your work spaces. I was at the Comdex show in 2002 and a company there next to Microsoft came in as a Best of Comdex finalist. They are Personal Computing Environments, I know they have amazing ergonomic workspace centers and they can be viewed at www.mypce.com I think you could get hold of them through the site and provide your requirements to them.
I think that if you have a forty foot container you could put at least 16 of these units in per container. I recall sitting in them and was really impressed and they have a comfort and cool factor that is unsurpassed by anything else I have seen, I even saw the unit on Spike tv and in Stuff magazine. I think that people would want to come and use your facilities based on that alone.
I hope this helps you, good luck.
Sincerely,
Alastair Gregor
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Subject: Re: [DDN] Assistance to design a computer lab - inside a 40 foot van
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:04:03 -0800
The lab I saw was intended as a mobile workstation. You might be able to squeeze more in if you never plan to move. There is a claustrophobia factor to consider, however....
Also, I would guess the biggest expense for maintaining a setup with such varied uses would be personnel--it's hard enough to keep a lab maintained in a situation where you are using it for a limited set of things with the same kinds of users, with all the variety you envision I would anticipate needing lots of tweaking and upkeep.
Cheers, Fred
On Dec 6, 2004, at 11:21 AM, John Hibbs wrote:
Fred Mindin: I will try to chase down the Palm Springs guys. Again, it would be interesting to see if their purpose was to showcase - two-three days here and two-three days there...or was it to provide a "working" place --- as it would appear by way of Jackqueline's comments?
NOTE: My *hope* is that the trailer will never move...or only after the location itself has "failed". The whole purpose is to have something that can be replicated and sustained by ongoing operations - (What I envision is a sometimes training place, like on Saturdays for kids for keyboarding and games; sometimes for use as an online shopping help desk; sometimes as an "introduction" to the world of e-learning - come inside and find out how YOU can attend Harvard, MIT or Podunk U; sometimes to demonstrate brand new software; and of course sometimes to show off hardware from Apple, Dell, Gateway - and Linux?
The really hard part is the revenue model - Can this kind of undertaking deliver intellectual property or services of sufficient value to support itself on an ongoing basis? Without government support or do-good handouts?
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