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c0re_dump

Back in Bristol

Feb 16, 2009 00:37

I'm now back in Bristol again after another trip to visit mum in Colchester. The train from Colchester to Liverpool Street didn't take me any further than Ingatestone, and so we all got on the replacement bus service for a trip to Newbury Park. This turned out to be an architectural plus point, because we arrived in the splendid barrel-vaulted ( Read more... )

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Comments 4

skellington1 February 16 2009, 06:27:02 UTC

the vacuum fluorescent customer display

Is it for displaying customers?!

loopback0 February 16 2009, 10:33:47 UTC

only flourescent ones with cleaners

c0re_dump February 16 2009, 19:46:09 UTC

It's sometimes called a "pole display", in which case, it displays lurid images of customers pole-dancing with Dysons. Oh, no, that's not right! It's the display part of a cash register, the part that the customer looks at to see the prices displayed. Two rows of 20 characters in greenish-blue dot-matrix font.

skellington1 February 17 2009, 05:22:28 UTC

Right, I can envision this pole display.

It would take rather *small* customers to dance upon it, which would probably be worth watching in itself. For science.