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

[Sharon Fisher]

I was *just* going to talk about that. The first year it was just the
toaster, and the second year there was a Lego contraption that put the
bread in.

My favorite was the Internet bathroom at the University of Tennessee.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 12:07 PM Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

>
> > 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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