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
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.
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:
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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