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1. moved_sdf_NYbill

   The windows computer controling the Hotel Penns elevators just crashed and rebooted. So it begins...

   Friday, 22-Jul-16 09:17:24 EDT from sn.gunmonkeynet.net
   • theru

     as long as no one hack it and has fun with the elevator ....

     Friday, 22-Jul-16 09:21:12 EDT
   • moved_sdf_NYbill theru

     @theru who ever would! >:

     Friday, 22-Jul-16 09:25:45 EDT
   • theru

     I know nothing :) maybe it's a voice controlled Elevator ? Good thing you're not from Scotland :D

     Friday, 22-Jul-16 09:28:16 EDT
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

     Apparently we've got an elevator crisis in Canada: http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6778293-canada-plunging-toward-an-elevator-crisis-we-re-already-there-expert-says/

     Friday, 22-Jul-16 11:50:55 EDT
   • moved_sdf_NYbill theru

     @theru Ha! There is an old reference. ;)

     Friday, 22-Jul-16 15:48:45 EDT
   • theru

     indeed :) I did rediscover it a few days ago

     Friday, 22-Jul-16 15:50:13 EDT
   • moved_sdf_NYbill Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

     @bobjonkman Ha! Well, we were on near faulty ones over the weekend. The Hotel Pennsylvania is quite old. I think its held together with layers of paint. (I waited till I was home to open your link.)

     Sunday, 24-Jul-16 21:16:27 EDT
   • tuttle

     I though software got burnt onto chips and soldiered onto circuit boards for that kind of thing.

     Monday, 25-Jul-16 06:34:44 EDT
   • lnxw48 theru

     @nybill @theru The previous time I worked in #JCMO (2013-2014), the building's HVAC (heating and air) system was controlled by an old #Win98 machine, running a DOS-based software package. But then a pipe broke and soaked the computer, so they replaced with a little embedded thing (remotely accessed by web).

     Monday, 25-Jul-16 06:47:33 EDT
   • moved_sdf_NYbill tuttle

     It was a ~14" LCD mounted above the buttons in the elevator. It would show a TV news channel while the car was in motion. As well as display the floor. When it would crash it rebooted windows. I don't think it was actually running the elevator system. It was still funny though.

     Monday, 25-Jul-16 16:03:27 EDT
   • moved_sdf_NYbill lnxw48

     This is happening quite a lot in my line of work, for quite a while now. Large old, rat trap relay, resistor bank, x-former, type cabinets get stripped out and a little PLC get installed.

     Monday, 25-Jul-16 16:06:11 EDT