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- From: mitch@banana.fedex.com (mitch wood)
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- Subject: Re: The Turbo lift - What gives?
- Keywords: turbolift, button...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.193804.17835@banana.fedex.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:38:04 GMT
- References: <alix.725263195@pv663d.vincent.iastate.edu> <lmahoney.39@chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu> <1hgjnvINNb5@uwm.edu> <1992Dec25.231132.18842@husc3.harvard.edu>
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- silvers3@husc11.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith) writes:
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- >In article <1hgjnvINNb5@uwm.edu> simon@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David Joseph Simon) writes:
- >>Since when did they have to press a button to gain access to the turbo lift doors?
- >>Even in the TOS, all they had to do was just walk right on board. Now, all of a sudden, they have to press a button to get on the thing.
- >>What gives?
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- >Since the third or fourth season, when TNG began to make minor upgrades in
- >the show's sets, doors have had doorbell buttons and turbolifts have had
- >call buttons. No reason has been given, but such a system would probably
- >be more reliable than whatever optical sensors would have to be postulated
- >to exist before...
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- I would say that the button is there for persons without com-badges. They
- cannot be tracked by the computer therefore it is not known that they are
- trying to access a turbo-lift for the computer to open the doors automat.
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- mitch
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- >Jolyon A. Silversmith __________________________________________________________
- >Mather House 100 Director: Civil Liberties These opinions aren't
- >Cambridge, MA 02138 Union of Harvard College necessarily those of
- >silvers3@husc.harvard.edu ________________________________ CLUH. But who knows?
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