Gents
Once again, thank you for taking the time to reply. I read about the Air Florida crash in one of Mcarthur Job's books. Reverse thrust did cause the engines to ingest snow/ice. Also, the NTSB decided that, after listening to the CVR, the engine de-ice (I'm assuming there is some type of pitot tube mounted inside the cowling?) item was answered "off", when performing the checklist. From what I could make of the report, this caused the pilots to use too low an EPR setting. At take off, the engines weren't developing all the thrust they could have, but, apparently, the pilots didn't know this.
The CVR transcript in Job's book clearly shows that the FO was not happy with engine instrument and speed readouts during the take-off roll.