Re: Possibly the weirdest Tempest problem yet.

"I think the same sort of thing happens pretty often at game auctions."

Try doing this and getting caught....especially @ AGS auctions down in Winston-Salem, NC :-). Rick isn't a nice guy when he catches people sabotaging stuff. I once saw a kid get "a low level of humiliation" stealing manuals from machines (not pretty...hearing a generally nice southerner growl "Now whatcha got in that bag there son" with that drawl is scary :-) ). I haven't been to an auction in 3 or 4 years, but someone was always there "playing" with machines....someone always got caught too....and, trust me, the law will not be on your side when you're lynched.

Sometimes it is funny though....someone tried sabotaging Mike Pacak's Sinistar in Columbus once...watching that guy flip out trying to fix the machine (pun intended) is a sight to behold :) ! I think he caused more damage beating the game with a screwdriver.

Ok, so I was a little off topic :)!

Ed

----- Original Message ----
From: Heath Roberts <htroberts@gmail.com>
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Sent: Friday, December 7, 2007 1:35:27 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Possibly the weirdest Tempest problem yet.

Before eBay, Duke University (and Medical Center) used to have a store where they sold all their surplus property kinds of electronics, etc. The longer stuff sat there, the lower the prices went--something that started at $2000 might eventually sell for $200.

I would stick my head in whenever I was going by, and would often find interesting equipment that had been disabled in non-obvious but simple ways--control panel disconnected, fuse missing, etc. I think people were hoping other buyers wouldn't notice, and they could snap the equipment up after it got down to the final discounted value.

I think the same sort of thing happens pretty often at game auctions.

On Dec 7, 2007 1:08 PM, Matt Rossiter <matt@rossiters.com> wrote:

I just finished fixing a box of Tempest boards this week that I had sitting around for a long time. I came across one that had some miserable problems with the Mathbox. After careful inspection I noticed someone cut the +5v legs of most of the IC's on the board!! Someone actually went though the trouble of RUINING a tempest board. I'm happy to say I bridged all those cut legs with a clean solder bridge and repaired the main board and it's back in business.

Has anyone else had to fix a deliberate sabotage? :)

Matt

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