{"id":838,"date":"2009-06-03T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2009-06-03T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T16:14:17","slug":"getac-oh-the-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/getac-oh-the-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"GETAC, oh the memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-839\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/getac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-839\" title=\"getac\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/getac-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"getac\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/getac-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/getac.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So I came across this story via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/06\/03\/getacs-ultra-rugged-v100-gets-upgrades-for-performance-not-loo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget<\/a> on a new rugged laptop made by GETAC.\u00a0 This really brings back memories.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 When I was in college, I worked for them, mainly doing web stuff (before I really knew how to do web stuff).\u00a0 At the time, they had really only 2-3 products which were sold in military contracts or to construction companies needing a rugged notebook computer.\u00a0 I just remember being in the back of the werehouse testing these computers, putting them in the big oven\/freezing machine to make sure they past specs.\u00a0 Then there was the time where they wanted me to buy the competitors product so we could take a look at the competition.\u00a0 How did we test it?\u00a0 Well, of course, we did the drop test&#8230; while the computer was on.\u00a0 Interesting, at that time, the GETAC laptop, which was enclosed in this heavy metal casing, turned off, but was still perfectly fine.\u00a0 Our competitors laptop not only was working fine, but it stayed on.\u00a0 Those were the days of cooking, freezing, and dropping laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I came across this story via Engadget on a new rugged laptop made by GETAC.\u00a0 This really brings back memories.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 When I was in college, I worked for them, mainly doing web stuff (before I really knew how to do web stuff).\u00a0 At the time, they had really only 2-3 products which were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}