> On Oct 30, 2025, at 1:40 PM, Tom Katt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Atari Tempest was my game back in the day > > The best of the bunch. I used to have one but it was too big and > underutilized so it had to go. It had the rare early version of the marquee > plus the image was square, not pin cushioned. > > I have stumbled upon more than my share of fantastic deals... About 20 > years ago I saw an advert in the local paper for a _free_ pinball machine - > just come get it off their porch. It was an 80's Bally Centaur - one of the > first with synthesized speech!
My buddy had Gorgar for a while. The speech board cost extra. > And can you believe that about $20 in solenoid driver transistors is all it > needed? I had a Bally Lost World, the first one wtih non-traditional artwork. There were spare transistors/SCRs on the logic board so I used them to replace the three that had blown. > Between the artwork and the gameplay this pin is still hghly sought after and > commands good money. I'll leave it to a nephew in my will lol. You can always ship it to me. Not that I have room for one. You don't realize how big and loud one is until you have it in your basement. > nd then there's the NYC traffic light (complete with aluminum base, pole and > authentic graffiti lol)... Happened to be driving by construction where they > were replacing the old glass signals with leds and asked what happens to the > old ones - I found out they fit in the back of an SUV if you position it > correctly ;-) We scored a pile of railroad stuff when Norfolk-Southern ripped out sidings. Signals, cross-buck lights, some really cool relays and lots of selenium rectifiers. That dwarf ground signal was a lot of fun to carry up a hill. Are we off-topic yet? Terry Bowman, KA4HJH "The Mac Doctor” https://www.astarcloseup.com (The notorious thread hijacker) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/32A12676-D56C-4CD9-ABEB-86394A0AFC04%40gmail.com.
