PINDIGI – in short form
Flippergerät is called in English PINBALLMACHINE and who wants to know why PINBALL :
On a wooden board nails were hammered in (PIN, s) in between rolled the ball (BALL).
Since Günter Freinberger is a pinball collector and his customers known him by his former ELEKTRONIK companies DIGI Technologies GmbH, DIGI Hitradio (local radio 103.3 Mhz) and now DIGI Real Holding GmbH, he quickly got the Nickname ” Digi ” .
Years Later Pinballcollector’s give ” Digi ” the Nickname PINDIGI in collector’s circles.
What you see here in the collection is an except from one of the largest collections of electromechanical and electronic pinball machines in Europe and this also the largest in Austria.
It must be said that PINDIGI meanwhile give no value on quantity of the collection but on QUALITY and UNIQUENESS – and he wants to come to the top of the world.
Other major collectors are in Australia (Michael Shalhoub – Pinballmaster and author) and in the US Gene Cunningham and Tim Arnold (Las Vegas).
PINDIGI and the Pinball Privatstiftung reached after 37 years of collecting (jukeboxes and pinball machines), almost 600 pieces of special machines . All important epochs of PINBALL time and cultural history and technical innovations are represented from 1932 to 201x, therefore> 80 years pinball and jukebox history.
For the Pindigiland he works in the future on fixed opening times and a repair training center for pinball and jukeboxes