Classics Reborn

[Slammed]

Well he thinks he's the hottest singer in the world.

 

[redfly]

He caught on Fire?!!?

 

[Slammed]

He's on fire every night, he's on stage he said so!

 

[redfly]

Oh well there ya go

 

[Slammed]

Awe come on don't be so harsh, his new album is going to be a killer.

 

[redfly]

Oh right the "California" album. We shall see.

 

[Slammed]

Pfft, you and your doubt shall be crushed when Sebbie come up with the goods!!

 

[redfly]

 

[Slammed]

http://www.metalinjection.net/metal-merch/an-iron-maiden-pinball-machine-is-coming

Dammit now I want a pinball machine.

 

[redfly]

How much $? lol

 

[Slammed]

If you have to ask you can't afford it

Can't remember where I saw it but there is three models and I think the range was something like 5K-8K which I think was US dollars.
However the cost of repairing these things when the fail (and they do) is a killer as well because even if you can do it yourself a lot of the parts are not the sort you can just get at any electronics shop.

 

[redfly]

You're right I can't lol

 

[Slammed]

I'd love a pinball machine (and the space to put one) but it wouldn't be a new one they are just too expensive. When I was a kid dad used to fix pinball machines, he hated the job because of the shitty hours and the dodgy places that used to have such machines. But I loved going to work with him when he'd let me

 

[redfly]

Yeah that would be pretty cool to see, I imagine there is way more to go wrong now. It's probably more software than anything lol

 

[Slammed]

Even back when dad was doing it it was logic circuits and chips but back then most of the parts were commercially available. These days with more stuff being controlled by the boards and the circuitry multi-layered it's a lot harder for just anyone to fix it. And like you say any software would be difficult to change by the average person unless it was open source and I would imagine not much of it is.

 

[redfly]

Must have been a neat job though

 

[Slammed]

He hated it I loved it

 

[redfly]

Hahahaha! well since you were the kid that's all that matters. Cause I can tell you watching my parents do programming was boring as shit for me lol

 

[Slammed]

Dad moved on from fixing pinball machines to building computers, those big motherfuckers in cabinets that go from floor to ceiling and have less computing power than today's mobile phones. Fixing pinballs was definitely a better job for us

 

[redfly]

Man it's amazing how much tech has changed. A smart phone has more computing power than NASA awhile back.
Did you ever get a pinball machine for yourself as a kid?