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I had a great use for 1/1 in my career at a hospital helpdesk. As part of our small jack-of-all-trades group, we were responsible for the paging system, which was being upgraded.

Our integration vendor had to test and set the volume of all the speakers and put on classical music. We realized that classical music wasn't probably the best choice in a hospital (figure that it can get very... dramatic) and the rest of the crew was figuring out what to put on overhead to carry onwards.

I grabbed my iPad, hooked it into the paging amplifier, hit play on a certain song...

... and the paging system dutifully played 3 chimes indicating an emergency page, and 1/1 boomed across the hospital. A very healing-space-esque theme, very fitting.



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