I'm Cal Newport and this is DeepQuestions, the show about living and working deeply in

an increasingly distracted world.

I'm here in my DeepWork HQ. I'm joined by my producer, Jesse. We have a musical accompaniment

to our recording today. The construction crew below has some good beat going. I like it.

Yeah, you probably don't hear it at home, but just so you know, Jesse and I are bob in

our head around to the background music. Jesse, you may have noticed I'm increasingly

taking over the workspace in our production office with an increasingly ridiculous amount

of home electronics and digital electronics tools. You see there's now a video game control

stick and like an arcade style control stick and buttons hooked up to an Arduino. Yeah,

you're doing the 3D printing, right? And 3D printing. Yeah, so I have our production office

is also a maker lab that I use with my kids. I bring it up, however, because in my interest

to indulge this particular family hobby we have, I want to put the bat signal out

to our audience here. I'm looking for something very specific and I'm hoping there's someone

in our audience who can help here. For whatever reason, it's kind of complicated, but I am

increasingly interested in purchasing a video game cabinet that has vintage circuitry

and the circuitry is pre-microprocessor. So I'm talking video game circuitry from that

period where video game cabinets had timing ICs and hard-coding bitmaps and diodes on

the circuit board. There was no actual processing unit you had to make all that logic work.

I think it's a really interesting period in the history of digital electronics. This is

a field I study and I write about it for whatever reason. I want one of those, but I know

nothing about that world. How do you find those? What's a good one? How much do they cost?

So if you happen to have some expertise about vintage video game cabinets and vintage video game

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