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Running on a Personal Computer

I just wanted to leave a note that I've changed the reference that the ride is controlled "by a simple program running on a personal computer." While a PC is commonly used for error reporting on a ride, I have never seen one used to control one. The industry standard is to use a programmable logic controller. In fact, as a failsafe, most modern rides (and all of those controlled by Consign AG) have two PLCs that must send the same commands as a fail safe in the event of processor failure. Hagerman( talk) 03:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC) reply


All the roller coasters at Six Flags Over Georgia are running on personal computers with a dedicated program written for each ride. The Mindbender's computer is a 286 running DOS in a room underneath the unloading dock. Superman's dual PCs (they're Dells) run a dedicated program on Windows XP.

If you're referring to PCs that run a dedicated ride control program as a PLC then we're both tehcnically right (I assume you are), but when people say PLC I usually think of solid state devices we had on older rides. Teh scarey monsar 01:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC) reply

put mindbender closed

I heard miguel saying that mindbender is closed for unknown reasons Amtrak 450 ( talk) 23:08, 8 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Name Change

The name of the article should be changed to The Riddler Mindbender to match the content on the page.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Running on a Personal Computer

I just wanted to leave a note that I've changed the reference that the ride is controlled "by a simple program running on a personal computer." While a PC is commonly used for error reporting on a ride, I have never seen one used to control one. The industry standard is to use a programmable logic controller. In fact, as a failsafe, most modern rides (and all of those controlled by Consign AG) have two PLCs that must send the same commands as a fail safe in the event of processor failure. Hagerman( talk) 03:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC) reply


All the roller coasters at Six Flags Over Georgia are running on personal computers with a dedicated program written for each ride. The Mindbender's computer is a 286 running DOS in a room underneath the unloading dock. Superman's dual PCs (they're Dells) run a dedicated program on Windows XP.

If you're referring to PCs that run a dedicated ride control program as a PLC then we're both tehcnically right (I assume you are), but when people say PLC I usually think of solid state devices we had on older rides. Teh scarey monsar 01:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC) reply

put mindbender closed

I heard miguel saying that mindbender is closed for unknown reasons Amtrak 450 ( talk) 23:08, 8 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Name Change

The name of the article should be changed to The Riddler Mindbender to match the content on the page.


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