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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.

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>    Jay Steele, 5E54                  (613) 763-7204
>    CAD Operation Tools Development   e-mail: custeng1@bnr.ca
>    Bell-Northern Research
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Cheers,
Paul Gittings
Telectronics Pacing Systems- 7 Sirius Rd, Lane Cove, NSW 2066, Australia
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