Own Magic, Star Gazer, Batman Forever, STTNG, Mystery Castle (project)
Gone Fairy, Secret Service, Meteor x3, Title Fight, Eight Ball Deluxe, Bone Busters Inc., Seawitch, Starship Troopers, Strange Science, Arena, Hook, Pin*Bot x2, Time Warp, Motordome, Robocop, Black hole, Jurassic Park , Wipe-Out, Pinball Pro: Challenger I, Swords of Fury, Stargate, Party Zone
Currently owning: ============ MAME in Sega cab with 25" arcade monitor (Has a 12" Bazooka powered subwoofer in it) - Not for sale Williams Civic Center Shuffle Alley (Puck Bowler) (1973) - 350$ Seeburg LS1 "Spectra" Jukebox (1967) - 300$
Currently babysitting =============== Heavy Metal Meltdown SOLD - leaving soon
Previously owned ============= Hot Tip, Countdown, HS, WWF, TFTC, T2, RS, Pinbot, Laser War, LOTR, Flinstones, FH, DM, STTNG, Getaway, Silver Slugger, Laser Ball, Bad Cats, Batman Forever, Meteor, TZ, Galaxy, 6MDM, TSPP, MB.
Own Magic, Star Gazer, Batman Forever, STTNG, Mystery Castle (project)
Gone Fairy, Secret Service, Meteor x3, Title Fight, Eight Ball Deluxe, Bone Busters Inc., Seawitch, Starship Troopers, Strange Science, Arena, Hook, Pin*Bot x2, Time Warp, Motordome, Robocop, Black hole, Jurassic Park , Wipe-Out, Pinball Pro: Challenger I, Swords of Fury, Stargate, Party Zone
Will the AMD brand really raise the inferred value? I always considered AMD a budget brand for their processors. However, I might still be experiencing residual tremors from owning AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz Thunderbird. When that s.o.b. was on, it sounded like a generator and gave off about as much heat.
I always considered Ati and Nvidia to be bitter rivals, upstaging each other every 3 months. Video graphics technology, as well as CPU speeds, have to plateau at some point where the technology out-performs the programmers and consumer 'needs', i.e. gamers, to point that improvements are imperceptible to the average Joe/mindless consumer. I suppose the brand merge might save some stationary costs.
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Own Magic, Star Gazer, Batman Forever, STTNG, Mystery Castle (project)
Gone Fairy, Secret Service, Meteor x3, Title Fight, Eight Ball Deluxe, Bone Busters Inc., Seawitch, Starship Troopers, Strange Science, Arena, Hook, Pin*Bot x2, Time Warp, Motordome, Robocop, Black hole, Jurassic Park , Wipe-Out, Pinball Pro: Challenger I, Swords of Fury, Stargate, Party Zone
One of the guys I used to work with was an electronics engineer and started with ATI back in the early 90's. What he told me is was internet had picked up some steam and companies like ATI were looking at the value of owing their domain name under .com. ati.ca at the time was owned by ATI but ati.com was owned by a guy that sold plastic poo; yes fake poo. Artificial Turds Incorporated and could be found at ati.com. Needless to say ATI needed to get this back since plastic poo did not reflect well on their brand. I have no idea what the guy got in the end but he did sell the domain.
I can't say that's unexpected-the building got rebranded years ago, and really names like Radeon were probably just as valuable. It's amazing-ATI always made awesome hardware, and terrible software, going all the way back to their TV tuner boards. Those things could do amazing stuff if the software only worked on them (which it never did).
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I always preferred AMD over Intel. Not sure why, perhaps because any Intel processors I have owner were a POS. The Phenom Quad I'm currently running is smokin' fast.
Rebranding is just part of the corporate aquisition world, and really isn't news to anyone except marketing people.
-The Getaway: High Speed II!! -Spider-Man -F-14 Tomcat -Guns N' Roses -Lord of the Rings -Twilight Zone
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Own Magic, Star Gazer, Batman Forever, STTNG, Mystery Castle (project)
Gone Fairy, Secret Service, Meteor x3, Title Fight, Eight Ball Deluxe, Bone Busters Inc., Seawitch, Starship Troopers, Strange Science, Arena, Hook, Pin*Bot x2, Time Warp, Motordome, Robocop, Black hole, Jurassic Park , Wipe-Out, Pinball Pro: Challenger I, Swords of Fury, Stargate, Party Zone
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