All of these people pre-date me getting into this hobby so I haven't met any of them, but it was still cool to see this site again. I own that
Zoo Keeper now. Al acquired it non-working in 2001 and created
this page to document the troubleshooting and repair process. He eventually sold it to a buddy around 2008, and that guy eBay'd it in December 2009, which is how I wound up with it. The weird thing is that I had stumbled across Al's
Zoo Keeper page a few months earlier late one night while randomly browsing. When I bought my
Zoo Keeper and it arrived from Georgia I opened up the back door and thought, 'Huh... This looks familiar.' I recognized the battery backed RAM that Al had installed, the Baby AT power supply zip-tied into place, and the weird permanent marker markings all over the power cord block and the ribbon cables.
It still said, "HIGHEST SCORES AT AL'S ARCADE" and had JWC's scores on it when I got it. I've since cleared the high score table and topped those scores anyway, though, and it now says, ""HIGHEST SCORES AT 36TH CHAMBER."
