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

Larry Sheldon LarrySheldon at cox.net
Sat Jan 18 20:57:15 PST 2014


On 1/18/2014 8:10 PM, Jack Haverty wrote:

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

>> Just like the elevator call hack at MIT... Oh, better not talk about that!
>> :-)

Sounds like something really ought to be documented for the ages.....

I have not seen mention of the Coke machine at JPL (or maybe it was 
CalTech) that had a display that could be used to post messages to 
people, or the mechanical hand you could use to chase the cats off the 
printer somewhere...
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