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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>]

i was slightly involved in something like this situation a few years 
ago (like 6 or 7), i had gone into work with my dad (i was probably 11 
at the time) who's an engineer at san francisco gen. hosp., and they 
were setting up some patient information screens at the nurses station 
for the new maternity ward, but the only problem was that the screen 
were just output, and the computers were behind them, but also around a 
couple corners, so there was a network of nurses passing the word from 
the IT guy at the screen to another IT guy working the keyboard in the 
back...it gave me a lot of faith in the medical system :-/




On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 21:01, Gregory Woodbury wrote:

> "It was written once upon a time (by Michael Winslow Czeiszperger):"
> > The problem was the cryptic InternetExplorer dialog had the poor woman
> > so flustered she couldn't do anything. Debug? YES? NO? YES? NO?, wait,
> > maybe its YES? or maybe NO?
> >
> > The keypad still worked, and hitting the cancel button stopped the
> > beeping and eventually led to her card being ejected.
> >
> >  From now on I'm taking my digital camera on all ATM trips.
>
> This evening at the CCB at the MLK Blvd Harris Teeter, one of the
> overhead monitors was displaying the Scandisk Fix/whatever/... dialogue
> (as the result of a power failure apparently) and the two bankers
> couldn't fix it.
>
> It seems that the computer running the display is in the back room, and
> has no local screen to allow the operator at the box see the screen.
> They have to get two or more people involved in reading the screen and
> relaying instructions.
>
> Who in heck designed that setup?
>
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