Re: Town Hall's DVA goes for four!

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@softhome.net>]

High powered? Are they Pentium IIs or some other super high end machine?


Eben Levy wrote in message <36499599.FEF2C7E@ozemail.com.au>...
Well, these high power computers wont suffer that. What probably happened was a software glitch.

Hubert Lam wrote:

> Machine probably hung up- the sound that comes out of my slow 486 sometimes 'repeats' itself when it runs out of CPU power.
>
> boofheadpaul@yahoo.com.au wrote in message <7267j6$kub$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> G'day fellow train heads,
>
> I quote the announcement broadcast by the new DVA at Town Hall's platform 4 at
> approx 5:28pm this afternoon (9/11/98):
>
> "The train on platform four goes to four, goes to four, goes to four, goes to
> four, goes to four, goes to four, goes to four..."
>
> I think you get the idea.  This lasted for SIX minutes before the system was
> shut down.  To add insult to injury, the old cartridge style DVA was reverted
> to, announcing the train was due to depart over the top of the stuck
> announcement, resulting in a very chaotic PA system.  At least it got the
> passengers attention!
>
> It'd be interesting to find out how this happened how it happened because the
> first sound bite ("The train on platform four") is one sequential bite, not 5
> word bites strung together to make the phrase.  Somehow the DVA split this
> message up to grab just "four", and joined "goes to".
>
> Mental note: carry a cassette recorder at all times :)
>
> --
> Paul McCabe
>
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Eben

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