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Re: Train Storage Carousel
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Fri, 19 Apr 2002 02:51:19 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry writes:
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> > The smart tower at the smart centres are simply static displays with all the
> > various configurations of the smart (smart & pure, etc..). It's not a
> > VENDING MACHINE. :)
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> Bummer. That would so rock if it were.
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> I wonder what the biggest item ever vended via a vending machine was. (I've
> seen a LEGO(r) vending machine in Oz as you know, cool robot arm and all)
> The idea of vending a full size car is so darn silly it is cool. Maybe
> Neiman Marcus would be interested!
Interesting rtlToronto factoid: Both Chris and I have run vending machines.
My favourite machine was one that made french fries for you-they had one at
the Etobicoke Olympium when I was a kid and it always intrigued me that a
machine could make something as complex as french fries. It dropped a small
foam cup, then dispensed enough frozen fries into a wire basket which
lowered into a vat of hot oil, then raised it and dumped it into the cup. I
would suspect the power consumption (to keep oil available at hot
temperature for 8+ hours of the day) and service schedule (to change oil,
filters, degreasing) probably made it expensive to run.
Later on when I worked for Bell Canada, they had these coffee machines
(which are quite common now) which lit up their insides while making you a
hot chocolate and taunted you with an imperative (YOUR BEVERAGE IS BEING
PREPARED! WATCH!) to pay attention. Word is that soon after I left BCE,
the BTS coffee machines became pay only-when I was there they were free! :)
You know, that might make a cool rtl12 contest, sort of a noncompetition
type of thing. Build a vending machine. Make it sell something-candies,
rtlToronto brochures, and we could use the money to a) pay for future events
and b) donate some portion to a charity. The winner is the one judged most
creative, complex, or amusing.
Mine will vend znap parts :)
Calum
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| In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes: <french fry vender> Yes, those are cool. Ditto the popcorn venders... <great contest idea for a vending machine> (...) Good thing you're in Canada then, inasmuch as one cent Canadian may be all people (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) When you say "have run" do you mean you were the person who kept them fed with product, emptied out the cash, reset prices, etc. or something else? If so, me too! I used to "run" (for about 2 years) the pop machine at my fraternity house. It (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Bummer. That would so rock if it were. I wonder what the biggest item ever vended via a vending machine was. (I've seen a LEGO(r) vending machine in Oz as you know, cool robot arm and all) The idea of vending a full size car is so darn silly (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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