It's always curious to see something that does not handle losing its battery. From the pinball world Gottlieb also figure they'd get away by slapping one of those "it'll last forever" batteries on their CPU cards and assumed no one would ever have to replace it during the machine's lifetime.
Well, it turns out after 15 or so years the machines were now in the hobbyists' hands and the batteries started going, resulting in the machine being pretty messed up when its configuration NVRAM was full of uninitialized memory when the machine booted the next time.
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi
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2026-09-09 01:51:36 UTC
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