The Pinball 2000 platform made use of standard PC hardware and a modular playfield. The PC hardware did not run Windows or Linux but a customized version of an embedded real-time operating system.
To avoid the reliability problems of a hard disk, the Pin2000 platform used a custom PCI card (the Prism card) with EPROMS to store the system and game code and other circuitry for audio and other miscellaneous functions. All playfield control is handled very elegantly by a large driver board that sits at the bottom of the Pin2000 cabinet. This driver board connects to the parallel printer port of the Pin2000 motherboard and has standardized connectors to mate with the playfield.