[Ipg-smz] New toaster oven at my place of work

Daniel Dern dern at pair.com
Tue Aug 6 18:07:03 UTC 2019


> On 6 Aug 2019, at 19:29, Ken Hess via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
> That would make a funny post: Writing a CLI to simplify my toaster
> oven life.

Ah, you young'uns... been done, very pre-IoT, e.g. John Romkey's Internet 
Toaster (Interop ~1988 or ~1989), followed the next year by TGV and others 
with the Internet Stereo, and other doohickeys, not to mention the rich 
history of Internet of connected coffeemakers, vending machines, etc. So 
long ago that the my (and other peoples') articles appeared in print. I 
have 'em in my file cabinet.

The biggest challenge of doing it at Interop, IIRC, was that union food 
rules meant they couldn't bring in a loaf of bread, just _one slice._ And 
that was the year Cliff Stoll was there, hence the concerned cry, "Cliff, 
don't eat the demo!"

> It *is* very much a state machine.
Yeah, with pop-ups.




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