How craze would these denoms drive you? (2 Viewers)

[SixSpeedFury]

I'm craze just looking at all those binary numbers.

 

[Mental Nomad]

Man, 20+ years of working on IBM mainframes in EBCDIC has not prepared me for this thread at all...

Wow. 20+ years in EBCDIC... do you have an accent in ASCII?

 

[pltrgyst]

Had an idea for a custom denom set and wanted to see how people react to it.

$1/8 (twelve and a half cents, half a quarter - this used to be a coin called a "bit.")
$1
$8
$64

Multiples of eight, all the way.

This would correspond to a bit, a byte, a word, and a frame, in computerland.

Well, only if you're a current mainstream computer type, and ignore parity altogether.

 

[pltrgyst]

...And nothing will ever compare to pltrgyst's prime numbers chip set, complete with 33-1/3c frac. Pics, Larry?

Even though they're shown here, the $1 chips were never intended to be used.

 

[CdnBeerLover]

Wow. 20+ years in EBCDIC... do you have an accent in ASCII?

I'm bilingual, but just barely. I have worked on Unix as well. But I won't do Windows anymore. I served my sentence. It's been nothing but mainframes again for the past 5 yrs.

 

[Chicken Rob]

 

[abby99]

Check out this thread from thechipboard.com. A couple of casinos issued 12.5-cent chips. Other non-standard denominations exist as well.

Sans Souci, Las Vegas 12.5-cent chip (link)

Club Bingo, Downtown Las Vegas, 12.5-cent chip (link)

Seven Cedars, Sequim, WA, 20-cent chip (link)

plus others . . .

 

[Mental Nomad]

A couple of casinos issued 12.5-cent chips.

Makes sense that back in the day where 25 cent bets played at blackjack, they'd need bits to easily pay off a natural. A bit is to a quarter as a snapper is to a redbird.

 

[NiceShot]

01010100011010000110010101110010011001010010000001100001011100100110010100100000011011010111010101100011011010000010000001101101011011110111001001100101001000000110010101100110011001100110010101100011011101000110100101110110011001010010000001110111011000010111100101110011001000000110111101100110001000000110001101101111011011010110110101110101011011100110100101100011011000010111010001101001011011100110011100101110001011100010111000100000

 

[NiceShot]

This was one of the first piano songs I learned... never knew it's name lol. Thanks Chicken rob, because knowing is half the battle.

 

[Psypher1000]

Man, 20+ years of working on IBM mainframes in EBCDIC has not prepared me for this thread at all...

System i for the win!

Actually, we're converting away from System i and going to AIX with a DB2 back end. I liked System i, though. Super easy to work on.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I was trading stocks back in the day when everything was traded in 1/8 increments (smaller fracs even on the OTC/pink sheets - but I prefer to play with the big boys).

The 12.5¢ chip therefore felt natural, like an unintended pun. Continuing that theme throughout the set is a lot like the guy that thinks he is clever for piling on more puns to the unintentional one that everyone laughed at.

Or like using a text to binary converter to prove their cleverness with google.

 

[BGinGA]

beside knowing binary, I even ~taught~ binary.....

 

[Chicken Rob]

there are 10 kinds of people in the world...

 

[SixSpeedFury]

I see your 10100101010, and raise 1101101010 on top.

 

[CdnBeerLover]

System i for the win!

zSystem for us. Despite being labeled a dinosaur, it still has life yet.

 

[Poker Zombie]

there are 10 kinds of people in the world...

Hey, that would make a great tag line.... oh wait

 

[MeridianFC]

I'm still waiting on my 33 1/3, 45, 78 musical tournament set.

 

[BGinGA]

The center holes of differing sizes would drive me crazy.




But you did just give me an idea........

 

[BGinGA]

A custom ceramic set, with each chip depicting a different 45 rpm record -- artwork would be black outer ring with grooves, center 'hole', and appropriate colors and text top and bottom.


cash set:

"I've Got a Quarter in My Pocket" by Gary Allan

"One" by the Bee Gees

"5" by Interpol

"20 Dollar" by M.I.A.


tourney set:

"25" by Platypus (band)

"A Hundred Pounds of Clay" by Gene McDaniels

"500 (Shake, Baby, Shake)" by Lush

"1000 Sorrys" by Danny K

 

[Chicken Rob]

Get the adapter in the center hole to complete the art.

 

[Chicken Rob]

http://www.tshirtpusher.com/media/c...d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/0/1008_45rpm_art_black.jpg

 

[BGinGA]

Get the adapter in the center hole to complete the art.

Great idea, and also helps with the colors....

 

[Mental Nomad]

Get the adapter in the center hole to complete the art.

Well, there's your dealer button art...

And for a tourney plaque, maybe "More Than This," by 10,000 Maniacs?

 

[RichMahogany]

A custom ceramic set, with each chip depicting a different 45 rpm record -- artwork would be black outer ring with grooves, center 'hole', and appropriate colors and text top and bottom.

As a vinyl collector I've toyed with a similar idea myself.

Get the adapter in the center hole to complete the art.

But instead of using different color center adapters, you could use a standard center color adapter and have the base color of each chip represent a different color of vinyl.

Or...

Use a standard size center hole and make each inlay look like the center labels of an iconic record label, such as sun records, stax, Motown, or any others. Take your pick. Plus you could still use the colored vinyl theme.

I think the center label idea would work great for a custom CPC solid, half pie, or quarter pie set.

 

[bmichaelhorn]

Had an idea for a custom denom set and wanted to see how people react to it.

$1/8 (twelve and a half cents, half a quarter - this used to be a coin called a "bit.")
$1
$8
$64

Multiples of eight, all the way.

This would correspond to a bit, a byte, a word, and a frame, in computerland.

I would bet in increments of 7 or 9 to tilt the rest of the table.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I would bet in increments of 7 or 9 to tilt the rest of the table.

Increments of 9 wouldn't phase me. Increments of 7 might, if the 1 chip was ugly - and in a set with 4 denoms, you know they would all be the bomb.

 

[stocky]

Wow what the tourney set? Ram?

32
128
512
1024
5120

 

[Poker Zombie]

I'm all in for 2.5 GB!

 

[Psypher1000]

These chips will be featured at the Petaflop Poker Tournament.