Re: Interesting Applications

[Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:
> Robert L Bass wrote:
>
>>>"Self-destruct activated.  This building will self-destruct
>>>in 20 seconds.  Please evacuate."  Repeat ad nauseum.
>>
>>Napco's RP1-CAe2 keypads have a programmable system ready
>>message.  Most dealers leave it at the standard "System Ready"
>>but you cab change it.  After we installed a new P9600 system in
>>my church many years ago I was demonstrating the capabilities of
>>the system to one of the board members.  I set the message to
>>something other different.
>>
>>Unfortunately, I forgot to change it back.  Early the next
>>morning a sweet lady from the congregation who volunteered to
>>clean the church each week showed up as usual.  She disarmed the
>>system with the code the pastor gave and saw "Attention Burglar"
>>Second line: "Go ahead. Make my day".
>>
>>She read, "Attention Burglar", panicked and dialed 911.  I'm not
>>sure of the details but I think she told them there was an
>>intruder in the building.  The cops were not amused.
>>Fortunately, the pastor shared my sense slightly wicked of humor.
>>:^)
>>
>>--
>>
>
>
> Hmmm ........ that seems to work out to be 17 characters on the first
> line.


Seventeen on the first, twenty on the second (if you include the period
after "Go ahead").  On a 32 character two line display...
Interesting...  Bass must truly be a programming genius.  Can we say
"stupid", people?

Another Bass fairytale exposed.  "Kicks and Giggles" abound.  I just
love this group!!


Frank Olson
http://www.yoursecuritysource.com

"Splash, splash, splash went the minnow."  (Robert J. La Londe III)