Then the Man From U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) had to step in to fight the evil syndicate T.H.R.U.S.H because Batman was on vacation.
It’s real handy they put that thing on wheels. It’s a Harwell Dekatron computer. Oddly enough, I have a Dekatron on my desk right now. They are pretty nifty. They’ve come a long way.
Prior to vacuum tubes decade counters looked like this: https://photos.app.goo.gl/w2P4988V19DZnhuF8
That one’s in the score board of a 1930’s era pinball machine sitting in my lab.
SC law legalizes pinball for youth, ending decades-old prohibition South Carolina Daily Gazette via Yahoo | 06/17/2026 | Skylar Laird
For the first time in nearly 70 years, children and teenagers in South Carolina can legally play pinball.
A law the governor signed last month removed the arcade game from the list of so-called status offenses outlawed for anyone under the age of 18, following a decade-long effort. The original ban was never enforced, but it remained a source of anxiety for law-abiding business owners, supporters of the bill said.
Pinball gained popularity during the Great Depression as cheap, accessible entertainment — which critics called unskilled gambling tied to crime. Players released a ball that bounced into holes with different scores. Store owners often offered prizes to winners, and onlookers bet on where the ball might land.
Some opponents of the game also worried about children skipping school or spending their lunch money to play or make bets.
In the late 1940s, pinball manufacturers started adding the iconic flippers to the sides of the machines, adding an element of skill.
Still, many states outlawed the games because of their associations with gambling, including South Carolina, which banned the game for minors in 1959.
The new version of pinball with flippers grew in popularity throughout the 1960s and ’70s, even with bans in place. A 1974 California Supreme Court decision classified the game as one of skill and not chance, which led to states removing pinball prohibitions.
South Carolina was the holdout.
Playing pinball remained illegal for anyone under the age of 18, in the same category of offenses as running away, “loitering in a billiard room” or “gaining admission to a theater by false identification.”
Legislation to remove pinball from that list has been proposed repeatedly since 2015, with no luck — until this session.
No Angry Demented Troglodytes
Never Ask, Don’t Tell
Never Annoy Donald Trump
National Association of Democrat Traitors
Not As Dumb as I Thought
United Society of Illiterate Jargoncraft
Not only did they get the letters wrong, it’s not even an acronym. Nahdddt How do you even say that??!
Naturalized Aliens, Don’t Trust
Never Acceptable Demented Trunalimunumaprzure
Nancy Aoc Damnable Thickheadedness
North Allegheny Dance Team
It’s where we NADS dance naked in the moonlight every cloudless full moon. Join up to find out why.
It’s to seek the gods’ favor in your war against the people of the South Allegheny. But we have a boatload of fentanyl, so bring it on.
It’s not an acronym; it’s a tiny bug that flies around in swarms in warm weather.
There once was a Man from N.A.D.T.
Who feared that he’d be cadt
So he tried to engrain
The name in his brain
And branded his arm with a tadt.
Then the Man From U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) had to step in to fight the evil syndicate T.H.R.U.S.H because Batman was on vacation.
It’s real handy they put that thing on wheels. It’s a Harwell Dekatron computer. Oddly enough, I have a Dekatron on my desk right now. They are pretty nifty. They’ve come a long way.
Prior to vacuum tubes decade counters looked like this:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/w2P4988V19DZnhuF8
That one’s in the score board of a 1930’s era pinball machine sitting in my lab.
The ones in the Harwell are these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeS3xuuRBV4
The dekatrons are on the bottom. (Basically a vacuum tube that can count from 0-9.) Nixie tubes on top for display…
Here’s mine:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/FvSBfygD9PxSME84A
In the 80’s decade counters looked like this:
https://www.tinkercad.com/things/95kd7yF1h4E-digital-fundamentals-j-k-decade-counter
Now I can’t show you a brand new one without an electron microscope.
Yeah, the one we have is flipperless.
Oddly enough it does have a tilt sensor mechanism.
South Carolina?
All bets are off since Graham died. No one knows what will happen until his sister takes over his office.
Nice Ass Dreamy Tits.
Like Dolly Parton.
It doesn’t mean anything. Technically its Not A Damn Thing.
Nothing After Dark Thursday…