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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on February 19, 2012, 11:36:22 am ---Your example for a hard drive tester is piss poor and misunderstood.
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Watch your attitude..... misunderstood is valid critism... "piss poor" is not. 

I'm aware of the use you are talking about but I've never seen them used like that outside of a largish company that builds pcs.  The fact remains that they still try to sell the little paper weights  to service technicians.

I didn't realize that this product was intended for the local technician, if that's the case then it makes even less sense to me.  As Cheffo said, it seems like it would make more economic sense to just buy a new board and have the old one sent back for repair or as a trade in.    You know, like modern pcs today... you don't try to fix a motherboard when it goes bad... you buy a new one.

Green Giant:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 19, 2012, 04:09:25 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on February 19, 2012, 03:29:52 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 19, 2012, 12:56:04 am ---You've got to wonder what the point to that thing was.  Wouldn't an atari service technician have access to all the atari arcade cabinets to test things on?

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Uh..... Compactness? There's only so much room for everything. Not only that, the repair technician's job is to repair and fix the boards, not to play the games.

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Nah man... I'm still not seeing it.

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Wasn't it obvious?


Do you know how much you could charge per hour when you roll in with that boy as your test bed?


"Yeah, it looks like your solenoids are running low so I will have to recharge your electrolytic capacitance gel to ensure your motion control shaft respondence will flux correctly.........that will be $400."

paigeoliver:
I would venture to say a working one of those would probably be worth about $5000 today.

drventure:

--- Quote from: thefearsomefearful on February 19, 2012, 08:50:27 pm ---I want to MAME it.  :afro:

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Oh Hell yeah!

Le Chuck:
I am officially annoucing my sponsorship of the Atari X Prize.  $100 crisp American dollars to the first builder that creates a working to scale replica from scatch.  Start your engines. 

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