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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: BUCKETHEAD on August 04, 2008, 09:28:49 pm
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Anyone see a possible HIRING CENTER to TEMPEST conversion here ? :laugh2:
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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...
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Those things have a sweet trackball too. ;D
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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.
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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.
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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.... ;D
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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.... ;D
Just say you wanted to take the application home to fill it out. :dunno ;D
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I thought maybe you were implying he had some way to appropriate it such that they wouldn't miss it.
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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 :D 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.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/kayoteq/arcade/bender.jpg)
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.
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I would go grocery shopping much more often if I could watch Futurama while waiting at the check outs...
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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?
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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.