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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by animal531 on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:27AM (#20674753)
Right, before they mainly used it as an escape vehicle in case of warp nacelle or containment issues.
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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by amiga-workbench on Monday August 12, 2019 @09:18AM (#20675118)
Yeah, the warp core ejection systems always seem to conveniently fail. You would want to dump the entire engineering section and haul ass if you were sitting on an antimatter bomb.
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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by cannonedhamster on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:09AM (#20676097)
There were also physical backups in case the automated ejection system didn't work. There was always a physical backup to any touch interface that was critical to system operations.
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