Saturday, October 24, 2009

The body of the moving sidewalk

Like I've said before, the moving sidewalk is a lot like a computer. This means that it must have a lot of parts like a computer. The motherboard will be a central part of the sidewalk. In fact, its been called the central nervous system of the computer. The motherboard will control all the other parts of the sidewalk and make sure that they do their job. Most of the other parts of the computer won't be very necessary, except for the memory. This will help when someone needs to save sidewalk settings. These settings will include when to turn on and off, and  how fast the sidewalk should move. However, the other facets of a computer such as a the DVD/CD-ROM, printers, and a floppy disk drive...those probably won't be too necessary in the maintenance of the sidewalk. Speaking of maintenance of the sidewalk, when new technology develops and the sidewalk becomes obsolete as a result, an upgrade will be necessary. What do with the old technology we've removed? Throw it in the dumpster next to Whitman? Probably not. Many of the components of a computer are horrendous for the environment. They include substances like lead and arsenic. The sidewalk should provide a service, and it should not destroy the environment in the process. We can take all the old pieces to OCRRA Computer Recycling. Its located pretty close, on 5085 Court Street Road in Syracuse. It's probably less than a five minute drive from campus... or about a 15 minute sidewalk ride. 

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