Talk:The Riddler Mindbender

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)

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)

put mindbender closed

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

Name Change

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