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- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!chris
- From: chris@tessi.com (Chris Lamb)
- Subject: Re: CMU Coke Machine [Re: Torek a hack? [Re: What must I learn...]]
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.142720.10367@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- References: <15564.Aug501.37.2992@virtualnews.nyu.edu> <PDS.92Aug14101820@lemming.webo.dg.com> <1992Aug17.230131.7104@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:27:20 GMT
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- >> However, the machine was in the grad CS lab as I mentioned yesterday;
- >> you needed a special key (or a friendship with someone with such a key
- >> :) to get in. For a while they also had an M&M machine in there which
- >> distributed a huge handful of M&M's for $.10.
-
- Hmmm...I know the Coke machine was $.35 when I used to hang out in the Spice
- Rack, doing evil things on Perqs, and playing 'roids and pinball on the Altos.
- I've still got an old "X1" key from way back when...But the M&M machine is
- news to me. I guess the ten cents for M&Ms allowed them to reduce the price
- of Coke! :-) And in a related bit of folklore, I found a copy of "coke" on
- my Perq at home running Accent S5 - but alas, it can't locate the coke machine
- on my local network, so it won't run. Sigh. :-)
-
- CMU was a tremendously cool place to hang out as a 14-yr-old, fooling around
- with all that incredible stuff. I just hope that maybe someday I'll have the
- where-with-all to actually go back and get a degree!
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- -- Chris Lamb, Perq Fanatic and TechnoHistorian chris@tessi.com
-
- P.S. Was Hemmorhoids (sic?) a CMU creation? As I recall it was a very silly
- adaptation of the arcade game, in that the rocks would follow the ship
- around the screen! But Alto Pinball was awfully cool to...
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