From: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Sad News - we last two wonderful people in the past few weeks.
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 07:30:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F35D50-9896-4146-927F-AE545FDE9358@humeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220409104613.15F8321EE0@orac.inputplus.co.uk>
the connection is that these are switch registers on the front panel.
they ae designed for occasional use, not for long sessions with
multiple people flipping them on and off for hours on end.
they did last well, but its certainly not what they were designed for.
> On Apr 9, 2022, at 3:46 AM, Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> Eventually DEC Field Circus stopped replacing GT-40 switch registers
>> if they'd suspected that they were used for playing it :-)
>
> Andrew Hume wrote:
>> i do remember the DEC engineers being bothered about replacing the
>> registers.
>
> There's nothing at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(video_game_genre)#Lunar_Lander_(1973)
> about the switch registers being worn by playing Burness's Moonlander.
> What's the connection?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-09 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-08 20:48 Clem Cole
2022-04-08 22:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-04-08 22:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-04-09 5:49 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-04-09 8:07 ` Rob Pike
2022-04-09 11:10 ` Warner Losh
2022-04-09 9:20 ` Ron Natalie
2022-04-09 16:23 ` Clem Cole
2022-04-10 10:14 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2022-04-10 13:40 ` Clem Cole
2022-04-08 23:14 ` Andrew Hume
2022-04-08 23:53 ` George Michaelson
2022-04-09 0:28 ` Phil Budne
2022-04-09 2:03 ` George Michaelson
2022-04-09 10:46 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-04-09 10:51 ` George Michaelson
2022-04-09 14:30 ` Andrew Hume [this message]
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