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- From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Re: Flashing lights
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.201727.15689@PacBell.COM>
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
- References: <1992Dec22.104217.18245@reed.edu> <C01BxF.65u@agora.rain.com> <snuck@kaa.gr.osf.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:17:27 GMT
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- > emcmanus@gr.osf.org (Eamonn McManus) writes:
- >> batie@agora.rain.com (Alan Batie) writes:
-
- >>Computer just haven't been the same since they stopped putting switches
- >>and lights on them *SIGH*
- >
- >The computer under my desk is a HP Snake and it has quite a few
- >flashing lights. The best is the one marked with a heart symbol: it
- >"beats" two quick pulses every second to reassure you that the machine
- >is still working. The pulse rate doesn't seem to get any faster when
- >the machine is excited, though, a bit like Hannibal Lecter.
-
- In my brief career as a computer operator (back in the
- punch-card and paper-tape days!), the console I worked at had
- a volume-control knob so the operator could listen to the
- bits turning on and off and be secure that something was
- actually running...
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