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Article #471Re: The only Coke machine on the Internet
From: e... Eric P. Scott
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 00:51
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 00:51
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In article <56...@orca.wv.tek.com> and...@frip.wv.tek.com writes: >Then there was the vending machine at SAIL (Stanford AI Lab). To use, >identify yourself and place your order on a TTY. No need for coins, >your account was debited. And you could roll for double or nothing. It was better than that... there were some unusual things you could get from "The Pony." For example, $2 would buy you a cup with 8 quarters in it. Note that you could use coins if you wanted to--provided that what you wanted to purchase was priced a multiple of 5 cents. There were things that weren't... -=EPS=-
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!decwrl!ucbvax!ziploc!eps From: e...@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The only Coke machine on the Internet Message-ID: <197@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 21 Dec 89 00:51:56 GMT References: <7295@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <289@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <3588@alliant.Alliant.COM> <5691@orca.wv.tek.com> Reply-To: e...@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 14 Posted: Thu Dec 21 01:51:56 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit