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From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Carzy Flipper Fingers
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 13:58:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 13:58:05 1984
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I am not sure I see the reason why you prefer the title "antique" to the
manual ball loaders (I assume you are referring to the ones where if there
are five games there are five balls in the machine and you can punch all
of them into play if you want).  There is quite a period where both types
of machines were made.  I favor the distinction between the electro-mechanical
(I've got a Prospector, full of all kinds of relays and steppers) to the
electronic marvels (such as Xenon).  However, the use of a seven segment
display (most all machines have DIGITAL displays) is not always an indicator
of an electronic machine because I have seen many of the classic games
retrofitted with the more reliable counters.  A better indication is whether
it use assinine sythesised sounds rather than the classic chimes and dings.

-Ron