Play Meter

BEFORE
YOU BUY
ANY
LASER-DISC
GAMES ...
Fromm to Teach
Laser-Disc Seminar
By Dawn Adorno
CHECK WITH THE
LASER-DISC
EXPERTS
INCLUDING:
"Dragon's Lair"
"Astron Belt"
"Bega's Battle"
And others as they come available.
Central
Distributing Company
3114 Farnam Street
Omaha, Nebraska 61131
402/553-5300
Plan for the fir t indu try how
eminar on Ia er di ·c tec hnology a re
now being de eloped for OE · 4 by
R andy Fr mm of Rand y romm
rcade chool . romm. along with a
panel he is com po tng. will explai n
how Ia er di c sy tern work and will
co er the ope rat ion and se rvi cing of
Ia er di
machin e . The fifth annual
mu ement
pe rat o r
xpo will be
held March 9-11 a t hicago's 'Hare
Expo en ter.
I n addi tion to the Ia erdi c eminar.
Fromm will also g ive fi c other cmi-
nar whic h include uch to p ic a!> cmi-
conductors. the po' cr upply. ra. tcr
can monitor . -Y m o nit r . and the
digital multi meter. romm. one of the
AO ' most popular peak cr~. de ·cri bes
the digital multimete r a "the ~ing le
mo t important piece of equi pme nt tha t
e ery techni ian ha. to ha\'e."
The dig ital multim cter. he c. plai ns.
i a relatively inc · pen ive. hi ghly por-
table unit that can be used to diagn ~c
mo t co mm o n ga m e failures. H e will
introduce \'ariou t y p e~ of digital
multimeter · and gi \ c a comple te and
easy le so n o n usi ng the meter to iso-
la te problem . . test component!>. locate
h o rt circuit~. etc . r mm ·s seminar ·
arc geared t ' ard begi nnin g a nd inter-
mediate le cl tec hni ian .
con tribut ing tec hnica l writ er to
Play M eter. Fromm i a technicia n
who tarted hi s own arcade sc hoo l in
. an Diego in 19 0.
ntil re cntly.
Fromm traveled to gi H: hi~ !>ix-da~
course. to t ec hni cia n ~ nation\\ ide . H e
i · no w. hO\\C\ er. offt:rillg the COUr!>e
only in a n Diego .
romm ha gi,·en emi n ar a t the
Ia t t\ o
0
h o w~. a nd call the
. e. ion · "ex tremely fa · t-pa ed. highly
conden ed ver ·ion · of the ix-day
Ia. !.e!> normally held natiom\ ide ...
n II- ear indu tr ve t e ran ,
romm ha at o gi en hi etas e by
pecial reque. t for state a. ocia t ion . .
4 o~ t recently. he lectured in Jreen
Bay. W i~consin. and olumbu . Ohio.
and described the !>t:S ions a~ "extremely
. uccessful." The etas e~ cover t he ~a me
t pi es r mm will di cu · a t the OF
in March . He abo prO\ ide~ equipmen t
that the ~tuden t s ca n \\ Ork on in lab~ .
"The re~ponse to the~ hoot h a~ been
O\ e mhelmi ng. a nd the tud en t ~ ha,·e
learned a lot." Fromm said .
Tho ·e '' ho a tt ended romm·~ ~emi­
at
' J ga ' e him a majority of
" excellen t" re!>pon~e · in a !>Urvey dis-
tr ibut~:d h~ ~how sponsor. Play .\leter
a nd onference M anageme nt o rp o-
ration .
Some commen t ~ from th o~e e\ alua-
tion ,heel\ include:
nar~
• " Randy's 'cminar~ could ca!>ily
last three hour~ and maintain full
att~:ntion .
• .. . upcr jo b he made a dull ~ ub ­
ject fun ."
• "I th o ugh t the raster sca n cminar
wa~ very enligh tening and inter-
e~ tin g .
• " :"\ ext time I "ill a tt end only hi:-.
~cminar~ . R andy co\'er~ thing~ ~o
neat!~ .tnd comple tely
he i~ the
best for the cl\ erage repairman ." •
PLAY MffiR. October 1 5, 1983