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Embedded systems farmer. Ex WMS, PLD, Stern pinball. Randomly posting wacky stuff I saved from my time in the coin-op business, all of it retold incorrectly. You're missing a 10KΩ pullup over there. Cable address WILCOIN CHICAGO |✶✶✶✶|
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Pinball designer and overall legend Jim Patla in his natural habitat at Williams/Bally/Midway, late 1990s.

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After finishing Theatre of Magic, programmer Jeff Johnson left WMS briefly to work on a side venture with Eugene Jarvis. It was a 3D texture-mapped recreation of Mr Toad's Wild Ride. Disney eventually shelved the project and we got Cruisn' USA instead. But some artifacts remained....

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And it looks like one or two of the 1958 Williams Peppy the Dancing Clown units found its way to the Disney parks, reworked as a Woody's Ho-Down machine. Peppy lives on! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Bl...

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DOGE was about to turn off the NOAA data feed to AWS, including rainfall and severe storm feeds, at midnight tonight. One leak to Axios made them quickly pull back and say it's not until 7/31. If you're in aviation or agriculture, you better be looking into backup plans. This is... not good.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment