Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: menace on June 08, 2013, 10:48:45 am
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So interesting thing happened to me. Someone who I had sold a mame machine to around 9 years ago, sent me an email asking if I knew anyone who wanted it. Not knowing anyone but trying to be helpful I said I would buy it back. I offered $250 and will be picking it up this week some time. (I think I sold it for $1200, all those years ago--so not bad)
Before I responded to them I searched my old posts to see if I had announced it years ago just so I could jog my memory of what this beasty was. so back in 2003-4 I had started asking questions about it, but never really posted a build thread--oh well. Interesting thing though is that along the way I was reading my old history starting from newbish beginnings to "seasoned expert" to "been there done that" Funny stuff--I was really helpful there for awhile, wrote a few FAQ's and even knew my way around a monitor (all of which I have since forgotten) You can really tell where the kids came in!
If you've been around for awhile go dig through your old stuff--might be inetresting..
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Pretty cool.
One of my problems when it comes to searching back on my old posts is that when I first started, I had a different screen name and email and with my current screen name I just didn't post a lot in the beginning.
But it is interesting to sometimes think back to the lessons learned.
I remember when I was first working up the nerve to discharge my first monitor for a cap job (wg4900). Now I'm working on other people's monitors.
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A lot of my old conversations/threads are weird now because pinballjim was all over them trolling. I've gone back over some of my older stuff and now it looks like I'm arguing with myself a lot and being pretty douchey about it. :P
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A lot of my old conversations/threads are weird now because pinballjim was all over them trolling. I've gone back over some of my older stuff and now it looks like I'm arguing with myself a lot and being pretty douchey about it. :P
sooooo, no change then? >:D :laugh2:
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Definitely more douchbaggery than would have been there without pinballjim. ;D
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I can remember when Chad joined--he was the one of the most prolific posters ever seen and didn't even have a machine. Wasn't it years before you actually built something? lol
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Built, yes, but I owned arcade games before joining BYOAC. Some of us aren't MAME people. We're arcade people.