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| Spyridon:
--- Quote from: Level42 on November 05, 2009, 04:34:35 am ---No offense, I love Mark Spaeth's stuff but I hate that e-mail address there. I'm very glad he didn't do that on the SW/ESB kit. --- End quote --- I agree (I also have his SW/ESB kit on the way to me) |
| WunderCade:
Mark said that a simple little tweek with a programmer could get rid of it, although he made sure to point out that'd be "tacky" in the same breath. lol But if I had a programmer, I'd definitely get rid of it can't imagine it'd be any more tacky than having it on there. |
| Level42:
Sure, all it takes is reading the eprom, finding the string, removing it, erasing and reprogramming the Eprom. Unless he build in some clever protection, which I doubt. It's just that an e-mail address is so NOT-80's.... it also seems not the smartest thing to do with Namco chasing it's IP. |
| MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: Level42 on November 06, 2009, 11:22:36 am ---It's just that an e-mail address is so NOT-80's.... --- End quote --- I disagree. Lots of people in the '80s had email addresses, especially people like Mark Spaeth (an MIT student). If an MIT student in the '80s made a multi Pac-Man board for sale to fellow hobbyists, I can see him including his email address on the screen. It would have been a very "techie" thing to do back then. In fact, MIT figured prominently in the origin of email, some two decades prior to the '80s: --- Quote ---Electronic mail predates the inception of the Internet, and was in fact a crucial tool in creating the Internet. MIT first demonstrated the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) in 1961. It allowed multiple users to log into the IBM 7094 from remote dial-up terminals, and to store files online on disk. This new ability encouraged users to share information in new ways. E-mail started in 1965 as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate. Although the exact history is murky, among the first systems to have such a facility were SDC's Q32 and MIT's CTSS. --- End quote --- |
| Namco:
--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on November 13, 2009, 11:49:12 am --- --- Quote from: Level42 on November 06, 2009, 11:22:36 am ---It's just that an e-mail address is so NOT-80's.... --- End quote --- I disagree. Lots of people in the '80s had email addresses, especially people like Mark Spaeth (an MIT student). If an MIT student in the '80s made a multi Pac-Man board for sale to fellow hobbyists, I can see him including his email address on the screen. It would have been a very "techie" thing to do back then. In fact, MIT figured prominently in the origin of email, some two decades prior to the '80s: --- Quote ---Electronic mail predates the inception of the Internet, and was in fact a crucial tool in creating the Internet. MIT first demonstrated the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) in 1961. It allowed multiple users to log into the IBM 7094 from remote dial-up terminals, and to store files online on disk. This new ability encouraged users to share information in new ways. E-mail started in 1965 as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate. Although the exact history is murky, among the first systems to have such a facility were SDC's Q32 and MIT's CTSS. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- Yeah, but it's a Gmail email address. Gmail is so modern and "Web 2.0". Not a very cool thing IMHO to have on your vintage looking arcade cab. It would have been fine if it was some obscure edu or something, but Gmail?, it ruins it. |
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