I found this site: REC.ARTS.STARTREK.TECH FAQ: Transporters, Replicators and Phasing
It has some interesting info of transporters, but not what the three levers do.
They can be anything we want!
-Joe
The Id, Ego, and Super-Ego. That’s why messing with them splits people into Good and Evil of varying degrees.
But Kirk’s Ego is too big for one measily lever.
Farewell Mr Sonak 
Pretty much. There’s a line along those lines in one of Iain Banks’ Culture novels, someone is issuing orders for the construction of a ship, the protagonist asks why bother, the reply is similar to the above.
Oh, I used to think that, but then I met this girl in a bar:
“Oh, I’m not really bad– I just look that way at 72 pixels per inch…”
Now I’m from a “Press Quality” 200-line screen kinda family, and I’d only talked to high-resolution girls before, but whoa…
Found out too late she wasn’t even anti-aliased.
You mean on the original series? When Kirk said “energize” and Scotty used both hands to move all the levers to operate the transporter?
I thought there were six levers. I’ve looked for a video on Youtube but can’t find any showing the levers. Anyway, there’s six pads on the transporter. I thought it was one lever per pad. So if they were beaming two people down, they’d only use two levers.
Just make sure the engineer in charge of your Digital Conveyer is fully-versed in the latest Conveyance technologies…
“But the animal is inside-out
And it exploded…”
ETA: I made a similar reference in the New Sharp Television thread but no one seemed to notice (or care). So thought to acknowledge the humor. Mrs. Devil and I can’t have a dispute over numbers without making the reference. It can get quite ugly if the number five is involved, what with the Python/Trek clash.
Not since the brave Klingon warrioress r’Osa Par’Ks stood up for equality you don’t.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.