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# Heheheh
woo :))) Woo for the pic and Woo for vectrexes!

<extreme geek section>To display a photo on a vectrex AND maintain a refresh rate fast enough for POV would be a miraculous bit of programming... :)</extreme geek section>
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 13:48, archived)
# You geek!
We had a binatone. It was orange. We got it in a car boot sale.

I could write songs for Morrissey I tells ya.
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 13:51, archived)
# PONG systems
rock! Was yours the standard General Instruments jobbie, or was it one of the nifty custom ones that had games that all your friends pong machines didn't have?

Besides, I'm not a fully fledged geek. While I like geeky subjects, I do actually have a social life, and actively enjoy socialising with friends. And, I do currently have a girlfriend.

And I don't wear an anorak, or play Dungeons and Dragons, or have dandruff, or live in a flat full of crusty tissues (although my flat IS full of techno junk...)
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 13:52, archived)
# It had:
Pong, football (if you can call it that) and single and double-player squash! It was tipity top...

In fact it was this one!
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Pong/tvmastermk4.jpg

(edit:picture un-leeched)

well - one that was exactly the same as this one.
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 13:57, archived)
# i had one similar to that
and you're right everything was pong with a different number of bats.
wow! football, squash, tennis...
all pong ;)
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:00, archived)
# Some
had a lightgun and a shooting game, and some others had a racing game.

They (pretty much) all basically had the same games because they used the same General Instruments Pong chipsets.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:02, archived)
# I repeat:
You Geek!

But a likeable one though :)
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:04, archived)
# Partial geek
for all the reasons above. Plus I hate linux, surely thats against the geek grain?
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:07, archived)
# okay
a slight reprieve :)
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:09, archived)
# Ooohh.. a Binatone Mk6
that should be Colour, I do believe? (= a posh one)
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:01, archived)
# well it had a coloured box
it was still black and white - but then we only had a black and white telly so it could have been!

(You kids out there probably don't believe in "black and white telly" - but it's true I tells ya)
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:03, archived)
# Well
judging by the URL, its only a Mk4 anyway, so B&W. It looks like a Mk6... but I could have them the wrong way round in my head :)
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:08, archived)
# I must switch on my observant gland.
You're right.
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 14:10, archived)