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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
- Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
- Message-ID: <ff8N03.2c5yG00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:27:09 GMT
- References: <1h7nsmINNhpb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <sysop.349.724603331@elan.glassboro.edu> <18238@mindlink.bc.ca> <Dec.15.15.58.49.1992.23270@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <1992Dec16.144427.16924@b15.ingr.com> <1ha1ipINNsbq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- ar710@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William G. Martin) writes:
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- }Computer terminals make a sound like a mechanical printer when displaying text.
-
- }80-character by 24-line terminals always display characters in
- }much larger formats.
-
- }Text-only display terminals will display high-resolution graphics
- }upon demand by the resident computer genius.
-
- }Mainframe computers burst into flame when presented with conflicting input data.
-
- And if the data "comes in too fast", they put a big "601" on the screen
- and hang (ok, so that's a movie lesson not a TV lesson, so sue me).
-
- We could do a whole sub-category on this thread just about computers. For
- example:
-
- Mainframe computers consist of two components: Very large displays of
- randomly flashing lights, and tape drives. And you can always tell
- how much work a computer is doing by watching how fast the lights
- flash or how much the tape drives spin.
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- Desktop computers all have "instant-on"; the user never has to wait for
- the hard disk to spin up or for anything to load.
-
- The only people who know anything about computers are skinny guys with
- glasses (although the tape around the middle is now optional).
-
- --James Preston
-