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layouts of KITT's dashboards

Post by paul e l » Sun Jul 06, 2003 7:08 pm

found this webpage where someone made some very detailed drawings of KITT's dashboards.
just wanted to pass this along
(this isn't violating any rules of this website is it?)

http://www.pp.htv.fi/jterho1/drawings/kitt/

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Post by aussieknight » Sun Jul 06, 2003 7:12 pm

Yeah, that one's been around for a while. They're a good reference.
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Post by Rockatteer » Tue Jul 08, 2003 7:48 am

kewl site....

can't help wandering though why they have buttone repeated in the season 4 dash..

Boost 1 and 2 on both side panels of the steering wheel?

4 turbo boost buttons??

They relaly lost their creative flow on that dash huh!!
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Post by KITTfan » Tue Jul 08, 2003 2:41 pm

Could someone post that in normal jpg-file? Take a screenshot with printscreen button or something.
I don't have real Word in my pc and when I tried to open it with Works2000 wordprocessor it crashed for some reason :? I'd really like to see that dash picture :)

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Post by aussieknight » Tue Jul 08, 2003 7:10 pm

Don't forget there was a row of buttons down the centre to activate the various functions. I'm not sure what the green arrows were for. One of the replica manufacturers (Marks, perhaps?) sell a fully functioning switch pod that lights up the right hand side of the panel when the centre button is pressed. But to me, that doesn't always seem to make sense. Look at the PLRS button, and directly beside that is the CO2 button. Maybe their panels are different. Yep, here it is, about the middle of the page:
http://www.markscustomkits.com/Interior.html
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Post by Rockatteer » Wed Jul 09, 2003 5:46 am

Yeah but in a replica those buttons don't do anything....so it doesn't matter.

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Post by aussieknight » Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:13 pm

But in MINE they would! ;-)
Well, maybe not Turbo Boost perhaps, but SOMETHING...
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Post by March2875 » Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:57 pm

I was told by I believe it was Don Collie that the arrows determined what side of the switch pod the acitvating buttons controlled. As mentioned above there is two rows of lighted systems on each side of the wheel with one set of activating buttons down the middle. If the left arrow on either side of the switch pods are lit up the left column set of systems are controlled by the buttons. If the right side is lit the right side systems are controlled.

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Post by aussieknight » Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:00 pm

I thought it might be the case, but we never saw that happen. Well, I didn't, anyway. Anyone else see that happen? Like a shift key?
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Post by March2875 » Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:06 pm

Yeah that's what Don said. He believed that was the reason for the arrows but that It wasn't something the show ever offered proof of.

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Post by neps » Thu Jul 10, 2003 7:42 am

Seems like a good explanation, but overly complex execution if you ask me. Would be better to just hit the button, like they did. Who wants to fuss with a "shift" key when you have a wall in front of you that you need to get over.

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Post by Knight2000 » Fri Jul 11, 2003 4:21 am

KITTfan wrote:
Could someone post that in normal jpg-file? Take a screenshot with printscreen button or something.
I don't have real Word in my pc and when I tried to open it with Works2000 wordprocessor it crashed for some reason :? I'd really like to see that dash picture :)

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Ahh. The prob is that it was drawn in CorelDRAW - even just pasting it into paintshop pro seemed to take out all detail. I found that pasting it into Word meant that the detail was retained. I'm gonna try and put another version in Works2000 docuument. If anyone wants to see it in any other format please let me know.

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Post by Rockatteer » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:34 am

Try this..

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Post by Rockatteer » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:36 am

thats all I can get from the web page...is there more to it or is that it?
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Post by KITTfan » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:38 am

Many thanks Rockatteer! The dash looks really great :)

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Post by Knight2000 » Fri Jul 11, 2003 2:36 pm

Will Works 2000 open any Word 95/97 Document? Coz I can save it as that and can e-mail it. I tried to save it as a word document and it just lost the picture.

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Post by Rockatteer » Fri Jul 11, 2003 10:16 pm

people actually use MS-Works???!!!
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Post by KITTfan » Sat Jul 12, 2003 6:17 am

I don't know if I'm the only person in the world who's using MS-Works wordprocessor for writing those few documents per year what is needed. For that I don't think it's worth to buy a real Word or Office package.
I don't use even that much Works database and spreadsheet programs. Mostly I use my home computer for internet-surfing, editing pictures and recording & editing sounds.
Oh and Works has opened Word97 text documents but I don't know if it can open documents which has embedded objects or how was your picture pasted to it.
Anyway, keep up the great work with KITT dash drawings :)

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Post by Knight2000 » Sat Jul 12, 2003 6:24 am

Rockatteer wrote:people actually use MS-Works???!!!
I got some crappy OpenOffice with my PC. Then I managed to get hold of Office XP, thankfully. But yeah, on my old PC I had MS Works 95. Again, only until I managed to get hold of Office 95, and then Office 97.

Besides, a lot of companies bundle it "free" with their new PCs.

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