Now, this is a most curious topic. I'll bet that when you pinball
collectors tell people that you collect pinballs you get some very
strange looks; perhaps stranger looks than I got nearly a decade ago
whenver I mentioned that I collected computers. How do you tell the
pinballs apart? When you collect one, how do you know what type of
machine it really came from, or that it really wasn't recently
manufactured? What if someone accidentally lets all the pinballs
loose on the floor - would you ever be able to tell which was which?
Wouldn't something such as shirt-button collecting be easier?
Inquiring minds want to know! :-)
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Wouter de Waal wrote:
> 10 years old? Foo, that's new :-)
>
> I have a 1975 Gottlieb Top Score I'm restoring. Looking to buy
> a new (1984) Gottlieb Haunted House. And I have half a share
> in a 1968 Bally Alligator.
>
> All of those are considered fairly new pinballs :-)
Well, they are older than my car, but they don't seem very old. After
all, it seems to me that pinballs should not wear out for a very,
very, long time, and, when do they do wear out, antique or not, is
there any reasonable way of restoring them? Doesn't it just make more
sense to just put new pinballs in the pinball machines? ;-)
-RDD (who doesn't understand why a car that's only 28 year old can
be called an antique)
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