[EricH]

Originally Posted by cbale2000

This right here is what I miss the most about that old system. 5 second boot times and no screwing around with configs, they just worked.

QFT. And the whole "power the OI" (Mr. Forbes... You're forgetting the good ol' days again ) could be as simple as plugging in your nearest 50' tether between the robot controller and the operator interface box--just took some power off the robot battery.

[geezer]
Nowadays, you kids take longer to power up your radio than it takes to run a match! Field Fault? HA! Weren't no field faults back in my day*! It WORKED! Fast bootup, no random radio dropouts, and after the backup batteries came along, no controller brownouts! Had to trip the main breaker to stop that control system![/geezer]

*There were, but it wasn't because the field refused to talk to the robots or vice versa. Usually it was a scoring system problem, or an OI didn't get connected like it was supposed to. Swap the cable or reboot the scoring system, good to go.