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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Nothing, really... (Caffeine)
Message-ID: <17430@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Jan 91 22:43:09 GMT
References: <6836@crash.cts.com> <641@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <641@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:
>In article <6836@crash.cts.com> hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson) writes:
>>  Jolt is kids' stuff too :-)  Real men take Vivarin.
>Yeesh.  I swore off that stuff when I was an undergrad senior...

We've been waiting for Diet Jolt.  We figure it would have Cyclamate in it.

>>  Each little capsule
>>has 200 milligrams of caffeine.  About the same as two cups of coffee,        
>>but when taking 2 capsuls I'd swear it's a lot more than 4 cups!  This        
>>brings up another question: how much caffeine is in Coke or Pepsi?            
>>Milligram-wise or coffee equivilent-wise, whichever way you might know.

>I've heard that 2 12oz Cokes == 1 cup coffee.

Back in the foggy reaches of my brain, I used to know the caffine numbers.  As
I recall, a cup of coffee maxes out at about 160mg of caffine, depending on 
who made it.  Soda (Pop, Tonic, etc) has some legal limit (since in all cases
the caffine is added, not subtracted, to make up for the fact that Coca extract
is no longer legal), maybe around 80mg.  Teas vary greatly, but never get over
120mg or so.  Again, that's from memory, and could even be out of date; I 
don't know the latest in caffine technology.  I do recall that, in college,
Vivarin were preferable to NoDoze -- NoDoze claimed to be the equivalent of a
cup of coffee, at 150mg, while Vivarin was 200mg, and often cheaper (not being
such a name brand).

>Dave Schaumann		| You are in a twisty maze of little


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