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- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!isc-newsserver!ROCK!tad
- From: tad@ROCK (Tad Hunt)
- Subject: Re: My first nntp hack
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.225301.12359@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Sender: news@ultb.isc.rit.edu (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: rock.csh.rit.edu
- Organization: Computer Science House, RIT
- References: <AfL2RTC00VonAi=9w3@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:53:01 GMT
- Approved: drink@csh.rit.edu
- Lines: 37
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- In article <AfL2RTC00VonAi=9w3@andrew.cmu.edu> "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >Excerpts from netnews.alt.hackers: 18-Jan-93 Re: My first nntp hack by
- >Rich Holland@matt.ksu.ks
- >> *scratching head* I didn't hear that one -- but didn't someone at
- >> Ohio State (?) hook up a coke machine so that anyone on the internet
- >> could finger it and see which flavors (coke, diet coke, dr. pepper, etc)
- >> were "out" ??
- >
- >That was the Computer Engineering Dept at cmu. They had it so that you
- >could tell how many were in there. There have been tons of articles
- >about it on alt.folklore.computing.
- >
- >alex
- >
-
- Well, CMU used to have a drink machine from what I've heard, but I
- don't think it was accessable from the internet.. Ours, however, IS
- fingerable from the internet. Its pretty cool, we have a converted
- coke machine. you don't put money in it, you go find a drink admin, and he
- puts the cash in your on-line drink account. when you want a soda(pop) you
- log in to one of our machines here at CSH (Computer Science House) and
- enter the command: drink, which brings up a menu that looks like the one
- you get when you finger drink@csh.rit.edu and lets you drop a drink.
- You can even specify a delay between the time you enter the number of the
- drink to drop till it drops (just in case you're at the other end of the
- hall and you don't want someone to scarf it before you get there). Its
- pretty cool, we're working on adding sensors that keep track of how many cans
- of soda(pop) are in it, and the last time it was filled (so you know if
- they're cold or not.
-
- Also, the other cool thing about Computer Science House is that we're
- the first and only (to the best of our knowledge anyway) completely student
- run organization to have installed ethernet in every dorm room, and provide
- an X-Windows workstation to those who want it. I can write more if anyone
- wants to know, but I gotta blow for class.
-
- -Tad
-