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

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org>

    > there was a Coke machine attached to the ARPANET in the mid 70s, well
    > before IP was deployed, or the 1982 CMU machine. IIRC it had a specific
    > IMP/port address (on MIT-AI I believe) to which you could Telnet and
    > get back the current temperature of the contents of the machine.

I think that was actually SAIL, wasn't it? And it wouldn't have been
connected directly to the IMP (that would have required an IMP interface,
and a mini to run it); it was a peripheral on the PDP-10. (There may have been
an NCP server that returned the status of the Coke machine, though.)

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

	Noel