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- From: pds@lemming.webo.dg.com (Paul D. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Torek a hack? [Re: What must I learn...]
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- In-Reply-To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au's message of 11 Aug 92 15:25:20 GMT
- Date: 12 Aug 92 14:39:14 GMT
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- [] Regarding Re: Torek a hack? [Re: What must I learn...];
- [] avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
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- dr> Dunno about coffee/cappucino, but coke definately :-) I
- dr> remeber a post ages ago about a finger daemon hooked upto a
- dr> coke machine so they knew how cold the coke was likely to be -
- dr> not something for a unix rookie :)
-
- That was (is?) at Carnegie Mellon University; it definitely worked
- (works?).
-
- The coke machine was in the graduate comp lab; it had the 16 oz.
- bottles and was the only place on campus to get Real(TM) Coke during
- the infiltration of Coca Cola Corp. by evil [aliens|Commies|terrorists]
- intent on demolishing the high-tech industry in America (read: the New
- Coke debacle :).
-
- After much finagling I even managed to get myself a legitimate X-1
- key.
- --
-
- paul
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