WE'VE DONE IT!

[Marc P.]

Originally Posted by Dancin103

I remember as a kid thinking how high a team number like 834 was. Lol

I still have team 38's robot at home from 2000 with the IFI control system, where the Operator Interface has only 3 digits to display the team number, channel, and battery voltage. I remember when rookies were in the 500s, and team numbers over 1000 were just a far off dream.

[Dancin103]

Originally Posted by Marc P.

I still have team 38's robot at home from 2000 with the IFI control system, where the Operator Interface has only 3 digits to display the team number, channel, and battery voltage. I remember when rookies were in the 500s, and team numbers over 1000 were just a far off dream.

We have some of those laying around somewhere too! Such great memories.

[davepowers]

Originally Posted by Marc P.

I still have team 38's robot at home from 2000 with the IFI control system, where the Operator Interface has only 3 digits to display the team number, channel, and battery voltage. I remember when rookies were in the 500s, and team numbers over 1000 were just a far off dream.

Throw up a picture?! I miss those OI's, they took 3 seconds to boot and connect, not 45-90.

-Dave

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by davepowers

Throw up a picture?! I miss those OI's, they took 3 seconds to boot and connect, not 45-90.

-Dave

Well, not exactly a 3-digit display model, but if you're feeling nostalgic:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...9a8e07c6_l.jpg

[Tom I]

So how many other people are looking forward to when the total number of teams reaches OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Racer26]

I'm not so much trying to say that FRC can't scale to being in every high school, so much as I'm saying that FRC as we know it (with kickoff, KoP, 6 week build, 6 week competition season + a 400 team CMP) can't scale to that level. Theres simply not enough money, manpower, and space for it to make sense. Something would have to give. Breaking it into regions, as has happened with FiM and MAR is a step in the right direction of improving cost-effective scalability, but even that model is still a long way from being able to support a team at every school.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

I'm not so much trying to say that FIRST can't scale to being in every high school, so much as I'm saying that FIRST as we know it (with kickoff, KoP, 6 week build, 6 week competition season + a 400 team CMP) can't scale to that level. Theres simply not enough money, manpower, and space for it to make sense. Something would have to give. Breaking it into regions, as has happened with FiM and MAR is a step in the right direction of improving cost-effective scalability, but even that model is still a long way from being able to support a team at every school.

I agree, but remember - FIRST is not FRC.

[Racer26]

Fixed. Semantics as far as I'm concerned, but whatever.

[Marc P.]

Originally Posted by davepowers

Throw up a picture?! I miss those OI's, they took 3 seconds to boot and connect, not 45-90.

-Dave

Of course! Still take only 3 seconds to boot, and still work great. Even the old Victor 883's, with diodes, still work perfectly!