Hi Geoff,

At 10:35 AM 10/20/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Sean/Jose
>
>It's nice of you to reply to the suggestions; However I was curious in
>your response to my comments, about the significance of the bingo caller
>being a young lady?
>

Sorry, I cannot help you directly there, I only tried to translate what
Jose sent me. I was doing it rather quickly, and there was a word in
spanish which I didn't recognize in there and I was translating very
quickly. I must be more careful in the future, PLEASE DON"T ASSUME THAT
ANYTHING PREJUDICIAL was ment by it, as I am not really sure what he meant
to say.

Sean

P.S. If anyone is interested, the oringinal spanish for that was:

> El problema es que el operador (suele ser una se–orita)  que
>extrae la bola, pronuncia el numero ante un microfono y enciende en un

"suele" is what I couldn't understand, and couldn't find in a dictionary (I
think its a typo), so I roughed it over. I know, not a good idea in
translation, but it was late and I didn't have time to ask him for a
clarification.

>> Geoff
>
>>>My guess is the only simple, cheap solution to this problem is the
>>>humble
>>>numeric keypad that the bingo ball operator uses to key in the number.
>
>>The problem is that the operator (who will be a young lady) who extracts
>>the ball, announces the number through the microphone and lights the
>>corresponding digit on a panel by pushing the right button.Consider the
>>case that a ball appears and she announces a different number than is on
>>the ball and lights a different light on the panel. We try to avoid such
>>errors by automating the process.
>
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