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..... The AMOA has followed the lead of the Amusement Operators
Expo and has scheduled i t s 1982 AMOA Show for the Hyatt Regency
Hotel in Chicago, November 18-20. Earlier this year, the
Amusement Operators Expo announced the dates of the third an-
nual show March 26-28, 1982 at the same hotel. The AMOA, which
had planned to hold its 1982 show at Caesar•s Palace in Las
Vegas, decided to move its show out of Las Vegas when the
plan me t with strong resistance from exhibitors .............. .
..... Charitable contributi ons of games to the efforts of
Gary Mari nee were made recently by the manufacturers Exi dy ; ~­
Game Plan, and Universal. Marince has developed a modifying
device to enable the handi capped to play amusement games.
Tournaments using Mari ~ ce • s devi ce have become annual occa-
sions (~Meter, September, 198 0) ~ ...... . .. . ................ .
. . ... New western Florida amusement machines handler Monroe
Distributing held its open hou se May 2 at its Hialeah Lakes
facility with 200 operator s in attendence. Pac-Man appeared
to be the bi g attraction game among the widellneshowl) at
the di stri butorshi p ................. . ........ . ................ .
..... Southwest Vending Sa l es of Dal las held its equipment
show May 16 and 17 at Da ll as Market Hall, with seminars and
service schools on the two-day program. New games for spring
and summer delivery were shown .. .. .. . ........ . ................ .
...... In Moses Lake, Wisconsi n, police arrested two teen-aged
boys for passing photocopi es of dollar pills through change
machines. Police said at l east 55 photocopied bills had been
received from coin machi ne owners and that more were expected
to be found in an inves t i gation ............................... .
. . ... Hungary•s first wes t ern-styl e casino opened recently in
the capital city of Budapest . The casino is reported to be
off-limits for citizens of the Iron Curtain state ............ : .
..... The Hewlett-Packard Corp ., Palo Alto, California,
has developed a super-capac ity computer chip, UPI reported.
Having a 450,000-transistor capac i ty, it would be the most
powerful and sophisticated computer chip in the world, a
spokesman · for the high-tec hnol ogy firm said. The break-
through would send the United St ates even further ahead of
world competition in maki ng a more powerful microprocessor,
said the spokesman. And, besi des making increasingly
complex computer functions at hig h speeds possible, the
CDmputer in a chip was expect ed to result in lower mar-
ket prices for e 1 ectroni c products and increase the s_upp 1 y
of chips ...........•................ . .- .......... .•............
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PLAY METER; July 1, 1981