mspencer712

I worked for Ameristar Casino Council Bluffs in IT from 96 to 2001. When I left they were just starting to add paper receipts for payouts, that you would take to the cage for actual payout.

I remember Security reported many incidents of theft where someone would cash out a machine and be looking for tokens, a slip of paper would come out the top, and a thief would walk by and yoink the paper and take it to be cashed out themselves.

I remember as well the wall full of fiber transceivers for card box communications, in the hold of the river boat where our AS/400 (S109405A - why do I still remember this?) and IGT and Novell Netware server was.

What have I missed in the last 15 years that's changed things annoyingly or interestingly in slots and table games?

Also, old shufflemasters are restricted items so there's no legal way to get one for home use with Cards Against Humanity cards, if I recall correctly. Right?

My brain is still holding onto WRKACTJOB and PWRDWNSYS *IMMED RESTART(*NO) as well. Really the whole "work with" menu idea impressed 90's me.

Also I remember having one of the best phone support experiences of my life calling IBM support and putting 9406 for the product code. Had an attention light come on while I was working overnight backup shift. Called director, director said call IBM, IBM's phone system immediately got me a well trained person who helped me identify the problem in a few minutes. (I wanna say DASDI was getting full but I'm probably remembering wrong.)

Yeah. I left there in 2001 and haven't touched a 400 since. They weren't called anything-Series when I left.

Currently a professional programmer making banking software. I'm still terrible at it and am still getting worse. I mean I'm learning ways in which I have been terrible at a faster rate than I am improving, it feels like. Grad school made me an overconfident newbie who should have been asking questions more and inventing creative (and broken) solutions to already-solved problems way less. QA department doesn't hate me any more at least. :-)

What can Redditors do to help combat posts which try to frame political opposites or opponents as mentally ill, uncaring, dumb, or to otherwise dehumanize them? Ideally this would lead to increased empathy and compromise, though it would be a difficult, collective effort and would be resisted.