As I got nothing to say about the CRJ, let me bore you with an Interstate Race story.....
We are talking a long time ago. A loooong time ago. There were options to connect sims together via serial port (RS232 for people that are seriously old). There was no internet. Only BBS's. And Compuserve (some day I will tell you I was banned from Compuserve because I forgot the add a 'f' to a single word'.). The device looked something like this but 5 times bigger. And clearly it had not USB ports as USB was no yet invented.
So we had 8 teams for an I