Re: Showbiz Pizza order display

Once upon a time, Alan J McCormick wrote:
>
> The function of the display was to show pizza order numbers. When a new
> order came up, each digit (~1/2 the screen high) would cartwheel to the
> middle of the screen. The spinning looked very rough and seemed to cause
> everything else on the screen to flicker. Once the order number was
> displayed, the lower 1/3 of the screen would be divided into 3 boxes
> where the number that the previous big number would get bumped to.
>
> 19" monochrome B/W vector display. Something about the display screamed
> Atari to my young brain but I had no way of confirming this.
>
> The monitor was hung from the ceiling in a nondescript wooden box if I
> remember correctly.

Bloody hell, I'd forgotten these things ever existed. I now have a
*very* dim memory of something very similar at a Chuck E. Cheese's,
which could well be the same chain as Showbiz Pizza.

Dang, now you've got me wondering about these things too...

Later,
Doug.

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Douglas W. Jefferys           | 
Star Data Systems             | 
Email: djeffery@multipath.com |