[ih] Internet milestone - The Refrigerator Strikes Back (Jack Haverty)

[Jack Haverty]

Correct.  It was hooked somehow to a PDP-10.  No one wrote an NCP for the
coke machine.  Although it *did* have quite a few FIFO buffers - might have
made a decent gateway...

I think lots of places had some kind of vending machine attached to their
ARPANET host and somehow accessible via the net.  Not sure who did it
first.

/Jack



On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>wrote:

>     > From: Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org>
>
>     > there was a Coke machine attached to the ARPANET in the mid 70s, well
>     > before IP was deployed, or the 1982 CMU machine. IIRC it had a
> specific
>     > IMP/port address (on MIT-AI I believe) to which you could Telnet and
>     > get back the current temperature of the contents of the machine.
>
> I think that was actually SAIL, wasn't it? And it wouldn't have been
> connected directly to the IMP (that would have required an IMP interface,
> and a mini to run it); it was a peripheral on the PDP-10. (There may have
> been
> an NCP server that returned the status of the Coke machine, though.)
>
> Just like the elevator call hack at MIT... Oh, better not talk about that!
> :-)
>
>         Noel
>
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