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- From: paulg@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Paul Gittings)
- Subject: Re: Curious: TV in a window...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.105147.20055@tpl68k0.tplrd.tpl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telectronics Pacing Systems
- References: <1992Jul26.153332.8827@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 00:38:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul26.153332.8827@bcrka451.bnr.ca>, custeng1@bcrka333.bnr.ca (Wayne McFall) writes:
- > As I was leafing through the May issue of Byte magazine recently,
- > I saw an add for a board which allowed television signals to be
- > displayed on a window. I mentioned to a nearby friend that I
- > thought it was pretty interesting, and he abruptly responded
- > "Why... I serves no practical purpose."
- >
- > Well, my [limited] knowledge of multimedia tells me otherwise.
- > What are some of these apparantly non-existant "practical purposes?"
- >
-
- We have a problem in that people keep swapping the paper tray that is loaded
- into one of our printers (it takes A3 and A4) the only way currently to
- check which tray is loaded is to go into the printer room. One person, as a
- joke, suggested that we should get one of those cards and put a video
- camera in the printer room that way they can check the tray from their desks.
- This may be a bit of over kill for our problem but I would imagine that
- there are situation that you might want to monitor real world events while
- at your desk (especially in the areas of computer controlled systems). This
- setup might be used to avoid the sort of problems a friend told me of once;
- He was working on a computer controlled light rail system, he was on the train
- at the time talking by walkie talker to the computer operator (who was in a
- room with no windows so he couldn't see the train track). The operator told
- my friend that he had entered the command to stop the train and the computer
- system had reported that the train had in fact stopped, my friend informed the
- operator that the train was still moving at a fair clip. The operator
- refused to believe him (thought he was just joking), so my friend had
- to pull the emergency brake. A video monitor might have helped.
-
- > +-- --+
- > Jay Steele, 5E54 (613) 763-7204
- > CAD Operation Tools Development e-mail: custeng1@bnr.ca
- > Bell-Northern Research
- > +-- --+
-
- Cheers,
- Paul Gittings
- Telectronics Pacing Systems- 7 Sirius Rd, Lane Cove, NSW 2066, Australia
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