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Title: OS/2 on a place unexpected...
Post by: StefanZ on 2010.09.12, 13:47:47
Hello everyone,

now I returned from a prolonged weekend in Florence and Pisa (Italy) with my friends.
We had a great time, with exceptional sightseeing, culture and cuisine.

It was necessary for us to travel from Pisa airport to Florence (and back four days later at the end of our trip). The train services are being provided by Trenitalia, which employs lots of self-service terminals for ticket ordering at each station.

There are several types of terminals with varying ease of use, all of them are touch screen operated. These terminals seem to be used across the whole Italy. And guess what - all of them are OS/2 operated :)

The first thing that struck my eyes was the "warpish" design of the interface and buttons, but the most visible OS/2-like feature were quite ugly fonts. Nevertheless, all of this was just a circumstantial evidence. But later I was was given a direct proof, that the terminals are Warp4 operated - one of the terminals seemed to face some troubles (see the first photo) :) Also, when touching the screens, you could recognize the standard Warp4 mouse pointer and hourglass design.

On the second photo you can see the type of tickets coming out of the Warp-operated terminals.

All in all, the trip was great, with a huge surprise from Trenitalia :)
Title: Re: OS/2 on a place unexpected...
Post by: melf on 2010.09.12, 17:25:47
That was nice to see, Stefan! hope they upgrade to eCS when time is in, instead of changing to "the other" system.
Title: Re: OS/2 on a place unexpected...
Post by: warpcafe on 2010.09.13, 10:42:17
Hi,

not THAT surprising though... I don't recall the name, but some Italian guy from our OS/2 community actually is working in that department IIRC... at least I remember some OS/2 person from Italy talking about this. Not sure if that was on OS2world.com or ecs.ru ... but I knew about it.
Anyway. Nice to see (although useability could be improved as I think by the picture ;) )

Cheers,
Thomas