By Harry McCracken | Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 3:43 pm
This AT&T computerphone (which seems to be a model that dates from 1991) at JFK’s international terminal is stuck at Windows NT’s boot loader screen. Which isn’t a huge problem, because someone’s stolen almost all the keys–including, sadly, <Ctrl>, <Alt>, and <Del>.
I wonder when it last worked, and when anyone last wanted to use it? I came across it because I was doing what seems to be the most common activity at airport pay phones these days: sitting down so I could use my laptop.
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Oh yeah, sorry about that Harry, I was missing a few keys on my keyboard so grabbed them from there.
GPC
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:59 pm
So people in airports tend to break the control, alt, and delete keys, and "borrow" handy spares. Travel anger?
August 7th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
The poor thing looks almost like one of those Acer Aspire desktop PC from 1996.