Date: 12 Dec 2001 10:33:19 +0100 From: micheloo@xs4all.nl (Michel Oosterhof) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EzBSD aint for me! Was: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <9v788v$jc3$1@xs4.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3C16C7B1.1151FCC5@mindspring.com>
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tlambert2@mindspring.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
>SFMOMA -- The San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art -- had an excellent
>exhibit on industrial design.
>One of the examples was an emergency telephone.
>It was a pedestal, with wing-like protrusions on either side (to cut
>out road noise), a waterproof grille at an angle (covering the the
>microphone/speaker combination), and a very large yellow button.
>It was, I think, the epitome of beauty and elegance in industrial
>design for human factors: its use was obvious and unambiguous...
>you walked up, put your head inside the "wings", and pressed the big
>yellow button.
>Apparently, these units have been deployed in a number of European
>countries for road-side assistance.
It sounds very much like a dutch emergency telephone. They're placed
along the dutch highways every few kilometers. Was it yellow?
Here's a picture:
http://www.anwb.nl/content/images/historie_ww_1994vraagpaal.JPG
michel
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