American / Bally's
How were laps counted in the old days?
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, Oct 07 2009 07:03 PM
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Posted 12 August 2012 - 07:58 PM
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Posted 12 August 2012 - 09:45 PM
What????
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Posted 12 August 2012 - 10:42 PM
Zip, look at the post dedicated to American brand tracks to see them.
American sourced them from Bally's the famous pinball machine company.
American sourced them from Bally's the famous pinball machine company.
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Posted 12 August 2012 - 10:49 PM
the OP is soooooooooo old 
Are you trolling?
Are you trolling?
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Posted 12 August 2012 - 11:35 PM
the OP is soooooooooo old
Are you trolling?
Yeah .... you too, old is in.. no?
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I have a 'line' on one of these old Bally counters in nice shape from a pinball / jukebox service shop.
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Posted 13 August 2012 - 12:27 AM
Myself and Steve Medanic and others grew up racing HO cars in a sort of what I think they called steeple chase races. I may be wrong.
What it was is when you get lapped, race over.
What it was is when you get lapped, race over.
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Posted 13 August 2012 - 01:42 AM
In the really old days they used the SRT system...
Now in the internet age, you want to be able to follow the race on your iPad or iPhone, LapMaster is the way to go.
Now in the internet age, you want to be able to follow the race on your iPad or iPhone, LapMaster is the way to go.
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Posted 13 August 2012 - 05:31 AM
Pen and paper... It took several years in early 70's until we got the first lap counters - adapted from telephone counters.
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Posted 13 August 2012 - 06:47 PM
Carsten... The REALLY old days are pre computor.....no race timer, they were only capable of decade lap solenoid action for race start/stop.
I have the original Grand Raceway (MTT #5) French (Compte Tours) 8088 based lap counter that WAS one of the first CPU lap counters - from 1988.
I have the original Grand Raceway (MTT #5) French (Compte Tours) 8088 based lap counter that WAS one of the first CPU lap counters - from 1988.
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Posted 13 August 2012 - 08:38 PM
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Posted 13 August 2012 - 10:39 PM
This is kind of related ...well not really, but why are the lap counter strips so far away from the start/finish line these days, like half a lap (at least they are at BPR)? I remember back in the 60s they were close together, usually at the start of the longest straight.
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