<div dir="ltr">Stanford had a vending machine called the Prancing Pony that you would order from...<div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Noel Chiappa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" target="_blank">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> > From: Jack Haverty <<a href="mailto:jack@3kitty.org">jack@3kitty.org</a>><br>
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> there was a Coke machine attached to the ARPANET in the mid 70s, well<br>
> before IP was deployed, or the 1982 CMU machine. IIRC it had a specific<br>
> IMP/port address (on MIT-AI I believe) to which you could Telnet and<br>
> get back the current temperature of the contents of the machine.<br>
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</div>I think that was actually SAIL, wasn't it? And it wouldn't have been<br>
connected directly to the IMP (that would have required an IMP interface,<br>
and a mini to run it); it was a peripheral on the PDP-10. (There may have been<br>
an NCP server that returned the status of the Coke machine, though.)<br>
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Just like the elevator call hack at MIT... Oh, better not talk about that! :-)<br>
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Noel<br>
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