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twistedsymphony:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 05, 2014, 07:11:53 pm ---BM, you totally did it wrong. You are supposed to "throw them away" at your home, on eBay or at the local swap meet. ;)
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EXACTLY... that's how I got my first few arcade cabinets:
I worked as a repair tech at an arcade and was instructed to truck a bunch of machines to the dump...
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: twistedsymphony on May 06, 2014, 10:54:37 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 05, 2014, 07:11:53 pm ---BM, you totally did it wrong. You are supposed to "throw them away" at your home, on eBay or at the local swap meet. ;)
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EXACTLY... that's how I got my first few arcade cabinets:
I worked as a repair tech at an arcade and was instructed to truck a bunch of machines to the dump...
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I brought home quite a bit of what I considered saleable and listed in on ebay after the place was shuttered and I was unemployed.
I was throwing stuff into a dumpster attached to the building. I could only get away with taking so much to my car in a day.
The stuff I brought home was retail packaged end-consumer stuff.
However, I threw away cases and cases faces, pointers, mechs, etc for OEM clusters.
Had I known that a decade later I'd be tinkering with racing arcade cabinets......
I'm still using spools of solder that came from there.
I miss having a job where people actually make stuff.
Howard_Casto:
Yeah this modern society where almost everybody seems to have a job as a glorified middle man kind of sucks. I'm with you on that. There's something to be said about just making a quality product and selling it because people need it.
twistedsymphony:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 06, 2014, 05:02:22 pm ---Yeah this modern society where almost everybody seems to have a job as a glorified middle man kind of sucks. I'm with you on that. There's something to be said about just making a quality product and selling it because people need it.
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I can't argue with you there... I've always tried to work somewhere where I actually felt like I was doing something with a direct end product.
These days I work for an aerospace bearing manufacturer writing software... nothing I write leaves the company but my customers are essentially the engineers here so it's nice to be able to communicate face to face with the people I'm actually developing for.... though it also means that if anything goes wrong they know where to find me :laugh:
Unfortunately, aside from being familiar with a few languages none of what I do at work translates into being useful for working on stuff like MAME or other emulators.
Howard_Casto:
Well, I always say... you don't have to be a rocket scientist to work on MAME, but fortunately we've got two or three hanging around the forums just in case. ;)
Literally you are like the 5th or 6th person over the years that I know of that has been on this forum that works in aerospace, even if you design software.
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