Colmputers in Movies & T.V.

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Wed May 7 21:01:12 1997

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Larry Anderson & Diane Hare wrote:

> From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
> > I thought it was simply amazing how that blind guy could figure out what
> > an electronic device did by simply rubbing his fingers over the
> > components. THAT'S INCREDIBLE! But I digress.
>
> First he ran his fingers over the box and then had the kid power it up
> and interface it to his braille reader, then he scanned the output
> through the reader. I thought that movie had good merit behind it's
> ideas...

BAH! What was he reading? The voltage and current levels of each
pin-out of each component on the circuit board? TTL levels of certain
ICs? What? It was totally ridiculous!

(Everyone's a critic.)


Sam
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