Well, for me, at least. I’ve been on my feet for three days, and I’m tired. Great time; I was at the beer tent this afternoon and noticed that the guy with the stocking cap and grey beard in front of me looked kind of familiar. James Pozzuoli told me that nothing in the mine has changed. Good to see you, man!
140 pinball machines. One that kept breaking all week was the Brooks and Dunn, and I figured out why. Like a good IT person, when it broke on me I turned if off and back on again. And it booted up to this:
Let’s look closer at that tiny monitor in the upper right:
Yup. It’s running XP. The wonder isn’t that it broke; the wonder is that it ran at all.
Anyway – fun times and folks from all over the country. I guess I’m spoiled. One guy from New Hampshire said that there were six breweries in his small town – and no pinball. Here I’ve got three breweries and one bar with pinball within 40 minutes. Life is good.
This is a 1996 machine. I’m amazed it’s even running XP rather than, say, Win3.1. If there’s networking it’s probably token ring or something. 🙂
Listen if you can’t get Crysis running on that tiny monitor then you need to come back to work. I am curious what hardware is running that. There has to be a dedicated mini pc for that screen I would think. I’d love to take that apart. I’m sure we can agree on this, some flavor of linux would have probably been a better choice. Hopefully there’s no network access to it. If there is, it’s likely littered with malware and browser toolbars lol.
Great to see you, Tim!
I was tired by the time I got home. Don’t know how you did it for 3 days.