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General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: level42 on March 07, 2015, 07:07:36 AM

Title: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: level42 on March 07, 2015, 07:07:36 AM
So I heard a "rumor" that two crazy guys from the north-east of The Netherlands were heading to a place somewhere near Paris to pick up some cabs.....

Since I recently had been working on two 6100's that needed to go back to Paris  I figured.....maybe they can bring 'm there, they are traveling empty anyway....

They started at 5 am this morning though, and we'd arrange to meet on the side of a high way (on a parking place, mind you ;)) to do the "transaction" so they could stay on their route and don't loose any time.

Regretfully, although the 2nd monitor had a picture, there is an important problem with it still (way too high B+, which means way too high HV, which is not only bad for the monitor but maybe also for the player.....) so it was only 1 monitor...

Anyway, I got up WAY too early for a regular saturday morning and jumped in the car with the working 6100 all wrapped up...

Around 6.25 we were at the meeting place and we quickly loaded up the monitor. It's traveling laying on the CRT, the safest way possible.....
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: level42 on March 07, 2015, 07:09:44 AM
After a quick chat and coffee, we say goodbye and on they went to La France !

Hope to see pics of the working 6100 soon  ;D ;D ;D



(mmm, that van looks slightly familiar...... :D)


P.S. Open it carefully Franck, especially around the neck-area !!! Best to cut the bubble-wrap.
There is a small present on top of the screen so carefully check that  ;D
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: Etienne MacGyver on March 07, 2015, 08:04:58 AM
 :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: atarimania on March 07, 2015, 08:52:31 AM
You rock !!!!!!

Thanks a lot!!!!

I'll take care of the baby :) more pictures coming soon from the French arrival :)
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: Laszo on March 07, 2015, 06:49:32 PM
 :D
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: atarimania on March 07, 2015, 07:05:16 PM
The arrival:

Damned!!!! Andre!!! Such a big van for a monitor!!!
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: atarimania on March 07, 2015, 07:11:32 PM
We trade the monitor.... for a van FULL of cabs  ;D

Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: Wurstkopp on March 07, 2015, 08:01:03 PM
Robotron!
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: level42 on March 07, 2015, 08:29:30 PM
The arrival:

Damned!!!! Andre!!! Such a big van for a monitor!!!

Hey man, I was worried the neck(board) might get damaged ;)

Nice pics !
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: Alpha1 on March 07, 2015, 10:29:51 PM
I remember that van!!!!!!
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: Thwocker on March 08, 2015, 12:16:10 PM
Huuuuge van! It's so big I wasn't allowed to drive it, so Erik took care of the entire 1300 kms... badass!   8)
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: level42 on April 04, 2015, 11:08:18 AM
Sigh....I really _AM_ nuts.....

I picked up two very rare Atari 8 bit programs on tape for Franck and to reward my kindness I managed to score this:

The sellers lived in the very southern part of The Netherlands but mentioned they would be in Rotterdam that weekend so I sad OK, it's a 15 min. drive, I'll pick it up, that saves shipping costs.....

Guess I shouldn't have :(

My own stupid fault. It's one of those roads in a city where there are no homes or other buildings in the direct area of the road, it's 4 lanes and you still have to do 50km/h max. It has nothing to do with safety, but the police KNOW that they can score on such tracks and thus......
I KNOW that they often check there and normally I really watch my speed there so I should have watched my speed meter better...I only blame myself.

99 euro's for 11 km/h too fast........I feel like a fucking criminal !
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: level42 on April 04, 2015, 11:15:57 AM
Oh by the way, I tried the three tapes that probably had not been used for about 30 years and they loaded straight up ! (Of course, Atari quality).

Naturally I saved them to floppy (for now) in case things go wrong.

One of the unique features of the Atari cassette loading system is that the drives were stereo. They used one track for the data, but the other was "free" for analogue audio recordings which would be played back through the TV speaker.

Black Jack uses this feature, it was the first time I "experienced" this in real life :)

They also used it for f.i. foreign languages courses, which is rather smart.

Here's a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dunk49pCVBc
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: Luigi on April 04, 2015, 12:28:54 PM
Wow...99€ for being 11 km/h too fast?

That's a lot of money  :evil:
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: level42 on April 04, 2015, 12:35:28 PM
Wow...99€ for being 11 km/h too fast?

That's a lot of money  :evil:

Yep, it's insane.
That's why I keep warning Eurocade visitors all the time.
In this country, a slight mistake like this is treated as if you just did some terrible criminal act...sorry for the word, but I call them the speed-gestapo.

It's just another way to push money out of people's pockets into the government funds. If it was about safety they would do these kind of speed traps in areas's where there's lots of homes etc, but they never do this because they KNOW people will drive normally there and so they will not SCORE enough tickets.....

I think it has relaxed a bit now, but a few years ago there were actually targets set for the number of tickets police forces had to write out per year....it's like a factory setting a production target !


 :evil: :evil: :evil:
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: anunaki on April 04, 2015, 01:25:01 PM
The traffic fines in Holland have become ridiculous the last 10 years. It's a bilion euro industry nowadays with practicly no relation between the weight of the violation and the amount of money you have to pay

I even got a 80 EU fine on the highway while using my cruise control, because the speed limits keep changing every couple of kilometers and I probably missed a small part where you could only go 90 instead of 100. And of course that's where they have the radar.

Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: level42 on April 04, 2015, 03:28:01 PM
Exactly.

Like the traject speed check on the A4 between The Hague and Leiden.

It is a 6 lane highway with on one side a very big lake and on the right side nothing but polders. No city, no buildings, nothing that can justify a traject speed check. Also nothing that can explain why the limit there is 100 instead of 120 or 130 like it is on other places where there are MORE buildings/towns....

And of course THAT is one of the spots where they install such a system. Because they know that the road invites to higher speeds than 100......

That's the whole point....they don't care shit about safety, it's money milking.

Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: Thwocker on April 04, 2015, 11:21:53 PM
speed control can be about safety, emission and hindrance (noise), for both humans (in cities) and animals and plants (e.g. in polders and water areas)

still, speeding tickets suck   ;)
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: Etienne MacGyver on April 05, 2015, 08:41:12 AM
speed control can be about safety, emission and hindrance (noise), for both humans (in cities) and animals and plants (e.g. in polders and water areas)

still, speeding tickets suck   ;)

Thats the correct statement "CAN".

We all know here in holland its not.
Title: Re: I must be totally nuts....EADS at it's best....
Post by: Thwocker on April 05, 2015, 11:59:52 AM
it's all the EU's fault!   ;D