[WEB4LIB] RE: Technology Knowledge (Or Not)

[Robin Boulton]

George, can you confirm if the dashboard you speak of is the Ultra Media
Dashboard, either 3/5 or 5.25, from Ultraproducts (
http://www.ultraproducts.com/item.php?sku=U10-8200 )? It sure looks like the
picture on their web site...  

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of george at library.caltech.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:34 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Technology Knowledge (Or Not)
> 
> Jule Hartman contributed:
> 
> 1. Can I hook up my thumb drive, and where ?
> 
> The same applies to headphones and any of the wide variety of removable
> media from digital cameras.  For the longest time, if an appropriate port
> was available on a WinTel box, it was conveniently located on the back of
> the box, behind the monitor, up against a wall or the back or the table.
> Or, perhaps even more fun, a minitower might be on the floor, underneath a
> table.
> 
> The first major industrial design advance on the WinTel side that I
> encountered was the addition of USB and FireWire ports on the front of a
> Dell, although they were cleverly hidden behind an unlabelled, opaque
> plastic flap.  Not at all convenient for public access workstations.
> 
> A couple of months ago, the Caltech Library System started installing
> media
> dashboards <http://library.caltech.edu/about/mediadash.htm> on library
> workstations.  Dumbness factor dropped like a rock!
> 
> George S. Porter
> Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
> California Institute of Technology
> Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125
> Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681
> http://library.caltech.edu
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