http://chrisgregory.com/archives/2005/01/18/tram-reboot/ Just some stuff that happened. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:30:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://chrisgregory.com/archives/2005/01/18/tram-reboot/#comment-2 adam Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:29:21 +0000 http://chrisgregory.com/archives/2005/01/18/tram-reboot/#comment-2 You know the yellow dots on the green boxes? They're radio-wave detector thingies that were installed in the prototypes when the system was being developed. The idea was that you'd have little magnetic card-type tickets for your monthly and yearly tickets, and all you'd have to do is wave them at the box in the direction of the dot and your ticket would be validated. But I think there were some problems with the way the radiowaves or the circuitry worked, in terms of wiping ATM card magnetic strips, or being interfered with by mobile phones or something, and they never released it to the public. I met a guy who was testing them out once. You know the yellow dots on the green boxes? They’re radio-wave detector thingies that were installed in the prototypes when the system was being developed. The idea was that you’d have little magnetic card-type tickets for your monthly and yearly tickets, and all you’d have to do is wave them at the box in the direction of the dot and your ticket would be validated. But I think there were some problems with the way the radiowaves or the circuitry worked, in terms of wiping ATM card magnetic strips, or being interfered with by mobile phones or something, and they never released it to the public. I met a guy who was testing them out once.

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