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SiriusHardware · 15th Nov 2021, 9:58 am

Apart from the opportunities for schoolboy humour the main problem I can see is the possibility of what might be called 'us contention', or what happens when more than one of us tries to use it at the same time.

I've seen similar issues with respect to steerable scenic webcams, where I go to have a look in a particular direction of interest only to find that someone on the other side of the world is trying to look at something else.

I don't know if Doug Rice's emulator copes with this by running a new instance of the emulator for each extra visitor to the site, but it is obviously not practical to have up to 10 actual MK14s / replicas running side by side in case that many people all want to have a go at the same time.

15th Nov 2021, 9:58 am	#132
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,560	Re: MK14 Programming Interface Apart from the opportunities for schoolboy humour the main problem I can see is the possibility of what might be called 'us contention', or what happens when more than one of us tries to use it at the same time. I've seen similar issues with respect to steerable scenic webcams, where I go to have a look in a particular direction of interest only to find that someone on the other side of the world is trying to look at something else. I don't know if Doug Rice's emulator copes with this by running a new instance of the emulator for each extra visitor to the site, but it is obviously not practical to have up to 10 actual MK14s / replicas running side by side in case that many people all want to have a go at the same time.