("Jim Burns" wrote)
Simple. We've eliminated the hole. Yep, we've replaced the notoriously
unreliable gravity with tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronic
equipment. At the new place all strips will be printed with a bar code,
just like at the grocery store.

"Price check on isle 4, price check on isle 4. Ground controller to a
white courtesy telephone for a price check on isle 4."


[Cut from the web]
Have you seen the Ford TV commercial where the guy's checking out at the
self-check with the voice, and it gets stuck on "Wart Remover, Wart Remover,
Wart Remover", so he whacks it, and it starts rapid-firing "wart, wart,
wart, wart, wart, wart..." Very funny!

I'd name the new system...
(W)ide (A)rea (R)adar (T)racking ????

And if W.A.R.T. goes down? Someone suggested "Landline/intercom" as a
solution.

I'm going one factor of simplicity better: What are those brass tubes on
ships called (that you talk through) from the bridge to the engine room?
Sort of like a hole in the floor but more expensive.


Montblack
Hate to be the ATC employee returning from a two week vacation, learning the
hard way that they've replaced the brass [ship's] speaking tubes with
pneumatic 'drive thru bank' deposit tubes.

....that's gonna hurt!