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Article #619752Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:15
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:15
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On 2018-01-29, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > >> On 2018-01-29, AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 29/01/2018 10:29, Quadibloc wrote: >>> >>>> In the case of Airplane, it was definitely a joke and not a mistake. >>>> >>>> In the case of TRON, they wouldn't joke about things like that. >>>> >>>> But that doesn't mean it couldn't have been deliberate instead of a >>>> mistake. >>>> >>>> They could have felt that the sound of a daisywheel wasn't computer-y >>>> enough, and chose the sound effect of the sound of a dot-matrix printer >>>> as more suited to the intended atmosphere of the film. >>> >>> In a lot of cases they use what people will recognise and not the reality. >>> When someone is using a defibrillator it is invariably the 70s paddles, >>> the thump and leap of the body. These days it is a case of stick on >>> pads, a beep and a wobble but it is not Hollywood-enough an image to show. >> >> The one Hollywoodism that always bothered me is the way a telephone >> reverts to a dial tone when the other end hang up. I've never heard >> this in real life, but maybe it's regional thing. Can anyone from >> New York say whether this really happens there? > > Been a while since I did this, but I think you get a period of silence > followed by a recording telling you to hang up, or maybe a weird tone, > but not a dial tone. That's what happens here. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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