Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rruxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxv!rruxo!vch From: vch@rruxo.UUCP (V. Hatem) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: vending hardware needed Message-ID: <180@rruxo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 17:45:50 EST Article-I.D.: rruxo.180 Posted: Mon Apr 15 17:45:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Apr-85 01:27:12 EST References: <9854@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 19 That might be a little harder than you think. The machine would have to take the card (much like a bank cash machine) and return it when the user is finished. That's not so bad, but what do you do when they run out of time??? Turn off the machine?? :-} Vince Hatem Bell Communications Research rruxo!vch --- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an | | assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This | | has often been the ignorant approach of those who call themselves | | scientists and technologists. | | -The Butlerian Jihad | | by Harq al-Ada | | (Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert, p395) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+