17 Oct
2005
17 Oct
'05
9:22 p.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Most machines that pay over 200 to 500 $ or tokens require that the
attendant
pay out the jackpot, so you'd be accompanied to the bank, and probably given
a choice of the computer or the $$, which is how most promotions work.
If you turned down the computer, then they'ed give the coupon to someone
else.
>> In the early 80s some Las Vegas slots
paid a top prize of an Apple III
>> System.
>
Was that really true? And if it is, how on earth did it work? Did
you win a token or something?
Gordon.