Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 00:12:10 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 18:50:48 GMT Content-length: 2845 SACM Coke Club

SACM Coke Club

In order to generate revenue for the Wisconsin SACM chapter, and to circumvent the ridiculous 60-cent campus monopoly on 12 oz cans of soda pop -- and just be geeky to boot -- our coke machine has been computerized. It does not accept coin or currency, but instead debits a person's coke account whenever they login to the terminal alongside the coke machine and buy a coke. (big can of coke!)

So how does it work?

Additional information can be gleaned from the following formatted man page.

Machine specs (finger it):

The SACM coke machine is under the direct supervision of the SACM Coke Heads:

If you have any problems with the coke machine, please contact one of us. Note that even if you ask very nicely, we're not going to put anything but Coke products into our machine, because that would be wrong. Coke is it!

Of course, none of this would be possible without The Real Thing.


Ours is merely one of many coke machines on the internet; many exist all around the world, and some are far more elaborate than ours. Here is a link to the canonical source for internet coke machines.

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Last modified: Fri Nov 1 12:50:48 1996 by Martin Reames
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