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PYL and TPIR readouts
SRIV94:
--- Quote ---What do you have against FH? That was one of my faves as a teenager. Anyway, Wipeout and Caesar's Challenge used this modification as well, albeit without the crossed zeros.
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Nothing against FH itself, just one particular poster (who shall remain nameless) who tends to obsess over FH and a certain actress from an NBC show that airs the same night as FRIENDS (I think that prety much clears it up for everybody). :)
Doug
clemon79:
[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Jul 11 2003, 08:36 AM\'] What's round in the one we're more accustomed to is square in the other. I remember hearing that the two types emit light differently. [/quote]
It says as much, and then makes a parenthetical comment that kinda discredits the statement, unfairly in my opinion, 'cuz it's dead right. Those ones that use square \"pixels\" are most definitely using LED's with light difusers in front of them (which is what produces the square pixel pattern.) The round ones are simply the illumination from the bulbs.
GS Warehouse:
[shrugs] Blankin' short-term memory. Yes, I remember that Megan stalker from rec.arts.tv. One question, though: who would want to stalk her ?
PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Jul 11 2003, 03:19 PM\'] [shrugs] Blankin' short-term memory. Yes, I remember that Megan stalker from rec.arts.tv. One question, though: who would want to stalk her ? [/quote]
I just ran a quick check. Said stalker is here.
BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jul 10 2003, 11:45 PM\']
Well, you weren't, tho, Chris has it right, that's a standard seven-segment display. To my way of thinking, a vane display has no lamps, instead, reflective pieces are moved in and out of view by electromagnetic impulse. (Think of the score readouts on 80's Pyramid, the clock above Summers' podium on Double Dare, the keypad on Check-Out on TPiR when they still had a Beauty entering in the numbers.)[/quote]
When you say electromagnetic, would you mean the type of display that you might see on the outside of a bank or something similar? What I'm thinking of is a display where you can actually see the segments \"slide\" back and forth as the numbers change.
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