so i promised an update to my peeps, and here it is. it’s wound up being a lot longer than i had intended, but i do tend to ramble on. please read on, though — i’m about to cover a lot of different topics. :)

CAB CLEANUP

so mitch and harrison and i met up at about 11:45 and went down to the cabinet to unmount the monitor. we brought tools and cleaning supplies with us, and within about 20 minutes we had the necessary bolts undone and the monitor out of the cabinet. we dumped the bezel and the cardboard thing that goes around it, and the monitor is ready for pickup now by whoever wants it. we cleaned the monitor glass a little, and there’s some bad ‘credits’ and ‘game over’ burn-in, so probably good that we’re tossing it. we had time left over so we cleaned up the rest of the cab as much as we could, vacuumed it up and wiped it down a little. it definitely looks nicer. i’ll be posting pics later this afternoon. the coinbox and marquee held up to the cleaning and will likely be kept. the rest of the cab is still crap since the sides are useless.

THE NEXT STEP

so mitch and harrison and i decided that we’re going to start the process of building a cab from scratch, unless an undamaged one comes up in the next few days for the Right Price.

AND ANOTHER THE NEXT STEP

SO — in the interim, because building the cabinet could take a little while getting everything together and having time and everything, we also decided to start putting the actual CPU together while we’re at it, so that if one half of the project slows down or is on hold for one reason or another, we have another half one we can work on until we get back to the first. tweaking the interface etc should provide hours of clueless entertainment. :)

what this means to you is that it’s time to bring in the spare PC parts that you’ve all so kindly donated! the running tally of what we have and what we need is here.

right now the things we still need are a HDD (possibly donated by steve, thanks!) and a DVD-ROM drive. i have a Geforce2 that we can use for now, but we’ll probably want a more powerful card once things get really rolling. does anyone have a spare HDD that they’d be willing to donate or sell for cheap? same thing for a DVD-rom drive.

jeff is going to bring in his mobo/cpu and RAM, and seth still has his power supply, and will be bringing it in. viv is bringing in her monitor! minus the DVD drive and cables, i think we have a whole working computer!

thanks to everyone who’s helped out so far,

-tony.

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