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From: psocg!portante@uunet.UU.NET (Tom Portante)
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Subject: Re: Questions about BattleTech
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Date: 25 Apr 91 14:05:03 GMT
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    There was a description of the Chicago Battletech Center in the
    March 18 1991 issue of ComputerWorld (Vol XXV  No. 11). (p.20)

    From the description, the Center is a pretty big place (4000 sq
    ft) containing a number of player cockpits.  You strap yourself
    in, flip a switch, and, to quote:

        "You and your opponents are in command of Battlemechs, not
        so much a tank as an H.H. Wellsian nightmare: a 30-foot
        tall, walking robot containing a human driver."

    Cockpit graphics are supported by a couple of Motorola chips and
    the connecting LAN is Arcnet.