In message ,
Tim Mitchell wrote:

In article .com,
writes
Message profusion alert.
You could use a web-page and javascript / style sheets etc. I think if
would be helpful if you supplied more details about exactly how you
want to display the info.
i.e. moving, a single stable page of text, etc.
Simon.


Just wants to be a few pages of static text changing once every 10 sec
or something. A bit like teletext.

All monitors will have the same text. It is for a university dept who
want to display stuff like "10am 2nd year lecture cancelled", that sort
of thing.

The problem with powerpoint is that the system has to be operable by the
hard of thinking. Making up a power point slide and then making it
display it could be too difficult.

Lateral thinking:

Do it on a BBC Master computer with floppy disc. There's bound to be one
knocking about somewhere and even though 20 years old it's very likely
still to be working. There's tons of old software for the beasts, and
with a colour composite video output and dedicated teletext chip
onboard, all you need to find is the appropriate carousel creation
program.

The slight difficulty (if you are getting stuff from the net) is that
you'll have to find a way to get the data onto whatever kind of floppy
the machine might have attached, but if you can find one with a 3.5"
drive there are ways and means I think, even if you don't have access to
one of the modern Acorn-originated machines (these can, of course, read
most of the old format discs, as well as DOS discs).

Big advantage is that it's almost bomb-proof and not at all hackable
unless you are sitting at the machine itself. Real teletext looks pretty
cool too, in a retro kind of a way.

Hwyl!

M.

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