When Country Bear Jamboree was serious business
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I own a piece of the WDW Country Bear playhouse, from when they tore it down, bought at auction. It's a piece of fiberglass faux moulding about as long as a fireplace mantel.
Nice! A Teletype! I assume a lot of paper tape was sacrificed in the programming of these displays.
Those racks of electronics in the background emphasize just how hard it was to make computerized stuff in the late sixties. It may be a minicomputer with a bunch of custom I/O.
It's rather difficult to come by documentation of these old systems, short of going to the local university library and looking in the dusty stacks.
That's what the programmers need at our shop... pipes to smoke.
Smoking in the server room, Frak Yeah!
@crashproof - I am sure your programmers probably have pipes to smoke at home.
Cory, I presume you mean Disneyland's Country Bear Playhouse, which was evicted by Winnie the Pooh just days before 9/11/01. WDW never had a Playhouse (which is what the name of the Disneyland version of the attraction was changed to when the Vacation Hoedown show replaced the Jamboree show in the 80s). WDW's Jamboree is still there, since Pooh evicted Mr. Toad instead in Florida.
There was blooooood on the saddle...
I miss the video of Showbiz Pizza's Rock-afire Explosion doing Bubba Sparxxx's "Ms. New Booty." :'(
Wait, is that Eric Morecambe?
The pipe is what makes the whole thing work.
HAIL BOB!
"extremely serious men programming an animatronic bear"? OR Animatronic Bear lords over his programing slaves, forcing them to chose between improving his ever-better code and a serious mauling?!
I, for one, Welcome our retro animatronic Bear over lords!
(at least they will legalise pipes at work ;)
I love how the bear looks like it's directing things. "No, Frank, do it like Jim over here, goddammit!"
I miss Bear Country...
Zan: you took the words right out of my mouth. The CBJ is still there; at least, it was as of earlier today.
If Disney rebuilt that attraction today, that bear would be powered by an embedded iPhone, and it would spend the whole show trying to sell you something.
How could they evict Mr. Toad? That's the finest, most psychedelic, least age-appropriate ride at WDL! Why throw it out on the other coast?