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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: The controls
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 23:29:04 EDT
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> In article <2138@sdcc6.UUCP> ix925@sdcc6.UUCP (Steve Lau) writes:
> >	Has anyone noticed the LACK of controls 
> >on board the Enterprise? For such a complex ship, you
> >would think that there would be a lot more controls
> >then they have. My only explanation for this and for
> >the lack of labels is that maybe the controls had more
> >then one use. ...

In case you don't follow modern avionic engineering, the latest
designs have just a few touch sensitive CRTs that do everything.

There is even a GM prototype that has one touch sensitive CRT
replace every control in the car (from radio to climate control).

Why shouldn't the Enterprise have as good if not better?


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Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner

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