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- From: joseph@joebloe.maple-shade.nj.us (Joseph Nathan Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Fingering Coke Machines (was: Re: Torek a hack?)
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 12:45:01 EDT
- Organization: 5 Sigma Software
- Message-ID: <01050166.ate2d1@joebloe.maple-shade.nj.us>
- Reply-To: joseph@joebloe.maple-shade.nj.us
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- In article <avalon.713546720@coombs> (comp.unix.wizards), avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
- ) holland@dutiws.tudelft.nl (Gerhard den Hollander) writes:
- ) Dunno about coffee/cappucino, but coke definately :-)
- ) I remeber a post ages ago about a finger daemon hooked upto a coke
- ) machine so they knew how cold the coke was likely to be - not something
- ) for a unix rookie :)
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- Yeah, this was at CMU, the heavily-subsidized 25-cent machine (Cokes
- in *bottles* --yeah!) outside the door of one of the larger terminal
- facilities in the big ugly gray building. (I didn't go there--just
- visited occasionally.) I forget the machine's "name." This was
- mucho years ago -- 7? -- when I first heard of it. Then, of course,
- there was that fine Air Force-sponsored bit of expert system silliness,
- Rog-O-Matic. But that's another story.
-
- Hey, I wonder if the Diablos are still printing? Only place I've
- ever seen a live, working Xerox Altos.
-
- (We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion of UNIX
- hunks, er, hacks. It must be a slow summer.)
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