[ih] Early IoT: anyone remember The Internet Toaster and Crane? :D

[Jorge Amodio]

Was it CMU I guess not MIT, here is the story
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt

Jorge


On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 7:17 AM Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote:

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> As far as I remember there was a wired coke machine at MIT
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> Jorge
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> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:05 AM Lars Brinkhoff via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> How about Arpanet of Things?
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>> Danny Hillis connected elevator buttons to MIT's Chaosnet, and by
>> extension Arpanet.  Users could type a special key combination on their
>> keyboards to call the elevator to Tech Square floors 8 or 9.  Another
>> key would buzz open the door to the machine room on the 9th floor.
>> Source code for this is available.
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