The WAL-MART hiring center

[BUCKETHEAD]

Anyone see a possible HIRING CENTER to TEMPEST conversion here ?   

[Mauzy]

I tried VERY hard to get my dad to grab one of those for a mame conversion when he left the company a year ago. I figured we would be doing a service to any poor sap who gets suckered into applying, but he had no way to get it home in his little car...

[shardian]

Those things have a sweet trackball too.

[Ummon]

Tempest sit-down. Rad.

Mauzy, you should've asked a friend who had a truck, or at least a wagon. I know that'd easily fit in my Toyota wagon.

[TOK]

Thats funny! The Target by me has more upright white kiosks that look like little Candy cabs. They also have a small trackball built into the panel.

[Mauzy]

Tempest sit-down. Rad.

Mauzy, you should've asked a friend who had a truck, or at least a wagon. I know that'd easily fit in my Toyota wagon.

Yeah, but then we would have to explain to the cops why we were trying to walk out with a hiring center....

[hatrick]

Tempest sit-down. Rad.

Mauzy, you should've asked a friend who had a truck, or at least a wagon. I know that'd easily fit in my Toyota wagon.

Yeah, but then we would have to explain to the cops why we were trying to walk out with a hiring center....

Just say you wanted to take the application home to fill it out.   

[Ummon]

I thought maybe you were implying he had some way to appropriate it such that they wouldn't miss it.

[kayoteq]

Yeah, my work takes me to varied places, and I changed out some copy center card dispensing kiosks, and the old stuff either goes to a refurb place or a recycler. I so wanted one of those one-piece LCD/PC combos.. but I like to keep my job, and (fortunately) it wouldn't fit in the car anyway.

I changed components out on over 50 of these things last year, sometimes crawling into them.. but thanks to their poor coin slot design, I always had change for the soda machine And before nuking the HD, I sometimes would have a little fun.. Underneath all that, it's just a Windows machine. Just testing the flash player, was my backup excuse if anyone noticed..

Never dared run MAME on it though,  people always recognize a video game. Too bad, missile command would have been neat on a touchscreen.



Point-of-sale equipment is what you need to look for if you're ever needing a tiny vga/svga monitor.. there's lots of resellers out there.

[Mauzy]

I would go grocery shopping much more often if I could watch Futurama while waiting at the check outs...

[SithMaster]

A local pizzeria has these computers for taking orders that would work well for a bartop.  They are pcs with the monitor integrated into them (no not a laptop).  They look like a crt but have the mouse, keyboard, and a parallel port in the back.  It seems like it would be easier to use than hacking a laptop.

Unless money is being made recycling them why couldn't you get one?

[Ummon]

I would go grocery shopping much more often if I could watch Futurama while waiting at the check outs...

This kind of thing was starting to happen, but seems will be superceded by the market providing more individual devices - more cell phones, etc - which is good, because then people can use ear pieces/headphones or turn the audio down all together, as well as there not being this big hovering thing demanding my attention.