In article <1t2d6p$fg1@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> craig@ecel.uwa.edu.au (Craig Richmond - divi sion) writes: > rjking@acsu.buffalo.edu (Randall J. King) writes: > > >The other one (coke@somewhere) hasn't worked for a while. > > coke@mackerel.gu.uwa.edu.au is one. This is a list I put together a few months ago... finger coke@cs.wisc.edu (Coke machine at U of Wisconsin) finger drink@csh.rit.edu (Rochester Institute of Technology) finger info@drink.csh.rit.edu - soda machine stock details finger graph@drink.csh.rit.edu - graphical display and can temperatures finger coke@gu.uwa.edu.au (University of Western Australia) finger @coke.elab.cs.cmu.edu (Coke machine at Carnegie-Mellon U) finger mnm@coke.elab.cs.cmu.edu (M&M machine at Carnegie-Mellon U) finger bargraph@coke.elab.cs.cmu.edu (Visual map of CMU coke machine) finger mingulay@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Edcastle microwave) Dom ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: INTERNET: Dom@sound.demon.co.uk :: Demon disclaimer: I have no connection :: :: FIDONET: VF10 at node 2:254/14 :: with any other users at *.demon.co.uk. :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: *** From: Gabe Helou Does anyone else find it ironic that there are vending machines connected to the Internet while Prodigy is not? -- --- -- - - - - - - - - - *** From: Ralph Sims Once upon a time, in the land of Internet, some college students became tired of travelling great distances for refreshment, only to find the larder bare. So, being of great ingenuity, they wired their dispenser to electrical switches, which were in turned attached to their crystal ball, giving them foresight as to the status of the dispenser. Over a period of time, they devised a way to sample not only the quantity, but also the quality (in this case, temperature) of the product. But malady reigned when the traditional glass containers were replaced by metal ones, and the sensors no longer worked. Unfortunately, at the same time, or nearly so, the original crew went on to greater things, and the New Bunch found time for other things (irc and fn, perhaps). Persons and places are forgotten in the passing of time, and the details are clouded in history, but the basic facts are true. -- halcyon.com, Public Access Internet Seattle, +1 206 382 6245, Everett 672 4554 (login: new) NWNEXUS, Inc., P.O. Box 40597, Bellevue, WA 98015-4597 ralphs@halcyon.com, +1 206 955 1050 (personal voice mail) *** This one is most definitely real. We phoned up Coke and asked them if they had any old Coke machines that were no use to them anymore. Few weeks later we have a shiny spanking totally functional (minus the coin mechanism) Coke machine sitting in our club room. We built a controller around a 68000 and hooked it up to a serial port on the sun. We have a program that runs on the sun and talks to the minimal monitor that was installed onto the coke machine controller. You will be able to see it for yourself when the grand plan comes to fruition and we install the video camera that digitises the current image in the room and sends it to you as a uuencoded gif, jpeg, bitmap or whatever else we implement! Note: We are not doing this until we have ethernet to the campus lan because our 38.4 slip link wouldn't be up to the novelty value of the service. Craig -- Craig Richmond. Computer Officer - Dept of Economics (morning) 380 3860 University of Western Australia Dept of Education (afternoon) 2388 craig@ecel.uwa.edu.au Dvorak Keyboards RULE! "Messes are only acceptable if users make them. Applications aren't allowed this freedom" I.M.VI 2-4 *** I think "ironic" is the wrong word -- more like "heartwarming". ;) ...Mike -- Michael J. O'Connor | Internet: mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com Ford Motor Company, OPEO | UUCP: ...!fmsrl7!opeo!mjo 20000 Rotunda, Bldg. 1-3001 | Phone: +1 (313) 248-1260 Dearborn, MI 48121 | Fax: +1 (313) 323-6277 *** See Rob Kolstad's "Daemons and Dragons" column in the November, 1991 issue of Unix Review for some history on the original CMU Coke machine ethernet interface, and the MIT door lock and elevator interfaces from the AI Lab Lisp machines, too. -- Kevin Rodgers kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com Martin Marietta MS A16401 (303) 790-3971 116 Inverness Dr. East, Suite 401 Englewood CO 80112 USA GO BUFFS! *** The Stanford CS department has had the "Prancing Pony Cooperative", a computer-controlled vending machine, for almost two decades. It's in the third floor lounge of Margret Jacks Hall now, although it once lived at the Power Lab, the original Stanford AI Lab site. It used to be directly connected to the SAIL DEC-20 mainframe, but when SAIL was retired, it was defunct for a while, and it's now connected to the UNIX box that replaced SAIL. It's basically a payment system; if you have an account, you can buy things and charge them to your account. The machine has an early-model laptop attached to the front (replacing a Teletype KSR-35) for this purpose. Unfortunately, the vending machine doesn't have any sensors that provide user-useful info you could query via the net. It's one of those old turntable-and-doors type machines, where you push the button to rotate the turntable until something you want is behind a door, then pay. The machine doesn't know if it is full or empty. You can type "finger pony@sail.stanford.edu" for some info, and users of that machine can check their account balances. John Nagle