RE: Vectorbeam Question

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>From: zonn@zonn.com[SMTP:zonn@zonn.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 3:37 PM
>To: vectorlist@spies.com
>Cc: zonn@zonn.com
>Subject: Re: Vectorbeam Question
>
>On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:04:02 EST, Dangerwil@aol.com wrote:
>
>>Well,
>>
>>The cabinet has a label inside that is stamped allied leisure Rip Off #227.
>>The power supply is a vectorbeam with those damn circuit breakers. The
>>monitor chassis has vectorbeam silkscreened on it. 19" b/w with a tie dye
>>gel
>>overlay. The monitor glass reads Centuri, Hialeah, Florida.
>
>Hey I have one of those tie dyed gel overlays!! It was stuck in the back of
>a
>Rockola Starcastle. It looked like shit on the Starcastle, it must of been
>a
>Ripoff Overlay! (Do the colors look like they were screened like newspaper
>print? Little dots that vary in size to change the intensity of the color?)
>
>>I swear this thing was made in someone's garage. The coin entry was
>>handmade,
>>you can see where the sweated it together and the jaggedy cuts where they
>>cut
>>out for the coin mech. Similarly the legs are just square pipes welded
>>together. The buttons look just like the old concave Gottlieb pinball
>>buttons.
>
>Sounds like the inside of a Speedfreak.
>
>>As for it being trashed, nope I would say almost mint. Just a little
>>flaking
>>on the top glass. I know a guy, who having it, just might end up doing a
>>little more with it then just sitting it in the corner and saying to his
>>friends "look the only Rip Off cocktail known to exist" He just might
>>invent
>>some crazy board to let everybody play it.
>
>You don't mean by that, that he's going to convert it to something else do
>you?
>If so, what a shame... "Look the only Rip Off cocktail known to have
>existed."

The only Rip Off cocktail that I've seen was converted a few days later.
 And I did it....just joking. 8^) 8^) 8^)

I still regret passing that Rip Off cocktail up today. Along with the
Quantum for $40 and a few other sad stories...

>-Zonn
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Received on Wed Jan 28 16:18:43 1998