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From: SCARTER@RUTGERS.ARPA (Stephen Carter)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: vending hardware needed
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 11:34:55 EST
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Like most libraries, the ones here at Rutgers have those "Copicard" setups
on the photo-copy machines.  You buy some n amount of copies, and they write
it onto a magnetic strip on the back of a credit-card type plastic card.  When
you want to make a copy, you put the card into the slot and the machine 
rewrites the number of copies you have left as you use them.  I would think
that it would be a easy job to change the hardware to allow "n minutes" of
computer time instead on one copy...    Then each user would be able to
purchase any amount of time needed (if you really insist on charging for
a micro....)

SCarter
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