Sneaking into pools

Quote: Wizard

Yes, I took computer programming just after the school purchased about a dozen Apple II computers. Before that I don't know what they used, but kids walked around the school with shoe boxes full of punch cards.

I had an Apple IIe at home. What's more unbelievable is I had another one at work, and it actually processed the monthly books and calculated payrolls. It didn't even have a hard drive!

Well, at least I never had to learn to use a slide rule.

My usual (truthful) comments on my early days in computers go like this: While working on my first degree, I took every computer-related course the college offered -- all 1 semester hour. The college's mainframe computer was powered down at the end of the work day. Any student who knew how to program and operate it could go in, crank it up, and run it for as long as they wanted. There were maybe 8 or 10 students on campus who knew how. The computer was an IBM 1620.

My first (and only) job as a programmer/operator was at a Navy facility near Charleston, SC. The computer (an IBM 1401) had three components: a card reader/puncher, a CPU, and a high-speed printer. The CPU was close to 6 feet tall, 5 feet wide, and 2.5 or 3 feet deep. It had 4K of RAM and no mass storage other than punched cards.

No, these machines did not involve programming by setting mechanical relays nor "bugs" that really were insects gumming up the works. What? Did you think I was old or something?

Quote: Wizard

Yes, I took computer programming just after the school purchased about a dozen Apple II computers. Before that I don't know what they used, but kids walked around the school with shoe boxes full of punch cards.

OK, everybody who can remember getting phone bills etc that were key punched raise your hand. DO NOT FOLD, SPINDLE, OR MUTILATE!

Quote: odiousgambit

OK, everybody who can remember getting phone bills etc that were key punched raise your hand. DO NOT FOLD, SPINDLE, OR MUTILATE!

No, but I recall when hotel room keys were actual metal keys, with the room number engraved on them. Sometimes they came with oversize key-chains with the hotel's name and info printed on them.

Sometime in the early 80s my dad came back from a business trip to NYC with a small punch-card which served as room key at a Hilton there. The room number was hand-written in one side, the outline of a key adorned the other side.

I was just at Mandalay Bay and the pools are open to the general publc. Something about public access and gaming.

There is a Nevada regulation that you can't prohibit someone from going to a public casino. Recently special exceptions were made for VIP rooms, but that is another topic. The Mandalay Bay has a "poolside casino" that is accessible by the snack bar. If you told the guards by the main gate that you wanted to go to the poolside casino I think they could not forbid letting you in. It would be an easy trick to get away with to say you wanted to go to the casino, and then just go wherever you wanted once you got past the guard. Not that I approve of it.

Would this work at those nightclubs in the Palms? Anyone tried it?

Quote: nyuhoosier

Would this work at those nightclubs in the Palms? Anyone tried it?

I can only speak to "Moon" and it wouldn't work, because they don't have casino games there. In case you're wondering, you can go directly from Moon to the Playboy casino, but not vise versa.

At Mandalay bay, non-guests can visit the pool on weekdays if they rent a cabana. I wouldn't be surprised if other hotels did this as well.

http://mandalaybay.com/footer/FAQ.aspx
It's number 9 on the FAQ list.

Quote: dudestupid

At Mandalay bay, non-guests can visit the pool on weekdays if they rent a cabana. I wouldn't be surprised if other hotels did this as well.

Big deal. The cost of a cabana is much more than a room.