Re: More 'PIDS'

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

Matthew Geier wrote:

> In article <374D4AAF.2FB76E79@ozemail.com.au>,
> David Johnson  <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> >mcfergus@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> >
> >> As of 9:45 this morning the Windows desktop had been displaced by a
> >> turqoise and black screen, with the clock showing in the bottom right
> >> hand corner. The phosphor burns were still visible!
> >
> >Apparently all the displays at Martin Place are controlled by Sydney Box's train
> >describer.  It crashed for a couple of days, so all the screens went blank.
>
>  I had noticed that the lamps on the old indicators were being diven manually,
> with the station lamps changes cascading down the panel, instead of happening
> 'instantly' like occurs when they are on automatic.
>  Why didnt the station staff attempt to operate the new system manually? I
> would have though that would be a valuble test - see if the staff can drive
> the monster when the need for local control arrises - (like when Sydney box
> failes :-) Or does 'user interface' testing no come into it ?

With a train every 2 minutes, they were too busy operating the standard indicators,
DVAs and flagging trains to try and play with the new toy.

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David Johnson
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