Altair - A different perspective

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Aug 15 16:04:25 1998

On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Bob Wood wrote:

> I wonder how many other people on this list have worked on pinball
> >>machines/video games (coin ops)?
> >
> >Guilty! Still do!!
> >
> >One of my first electronics based paying jobs was with a now long gone
> >outfit called "Digital Design Concepts", whos main claim to fame was a
> >video game (called the "Video 5" which played five different (more or
> less,
> >all 'pong' styled) games.
> >
> >Quite radical for the time...
> >
> >-jim
>
>
> Don't know if you are aware of it but the video arcade game
> collecting hobby is about as close as it can get
> to being a mirror image of the classic computer hobby.
> It started at roughly the same time and has a very active
> and fast growing newsgroup <rec.games.video.arcade.collecting>.
>
> And, as I'm sure you know,
> all of the innovations and developments put into the
> coin-ops essentially follow the timeline of that for
> computers. And that is the foundation of their collecting
> interest as well. Many of them are employed by the computer
> industry as chip designers, software specialists, etc.
> And, eerily, their newsgroup recently devoted
> a great many long threads to the resistance of many to price
> increases just as is happening to computer collecting.
>
> Interestingly, though, while game collecting and
> computer collecting have so much in common - I am unaware
> of anyone who is a serious participant of both. Don't
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> know why that is. But if you have not yet visited their
> newsgroup I think you will find it entertaining.
>
>
> Bob Wood
 
Probably, lack of storage space :)
                                                 - don
Received on Sat Aug 15 1998 - 16:04:25 BST