On 2007-04-14, Joel Kolstad wrote:

A place I used to work at had a copy machine that displayed the current time
and date on its LCD. It was updated every second, and for some bizarre
reason that update seem to take up about a quarter-second... during which
time key presses (e.g., for setting the number of copies or paper size or
whatever) were ignored! @#$@%#*$

We learned to just hold down each button until it was recognized, but I
could never understand how something with such a poor user interface was
allowed to leave the factory.

I wonder how it was allower to enter production.

one possible scenario is that they replaced the LCD with a cheaper one at
some stage (after the design was complete) and the cheap one isn't exaclty
compatible with the firmware but is close-enough that it sort-of works.


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Bye.
Jasen