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Trojan Room Coffee Pot Auctioned Off

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the its-a-sad-day dept.

dlesko writes "The historic Trojan Room coffee pot at The University of Cambridge has gone to the highest bidder on ebay for £3,350.00 (that's about $5,055.20 USD based on the currency rates as of 8/12/01). You can see the results for about 90days. Now they just have to hope that the person actually comes through with the dough..." A fitting end to a net.legend. If I could figure out where Arial, my old DEC Alpha Multia that was the original Slashdot, I would auction that off and give the cash to the EFF (minus shipping a cost of a case of beer ;) Dave? Rosie? Where did that thing go? I know it was finally retired as the SMTP server... I probably should get it back someday ;)

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  1. Re:EH? by Pope · · Score: 3, Informative
    It's better explained by visiting one of the URL's posted in this discussion, but to be brief: a camera was aimed at a coffee pot, and captured images that could be viewed remotely to see if any coffee was there, saving a long and often unrewarding trip from the Lab to the coffee room.

    Back when "Wired" magazine was cool and not dedicated to the pursuit of $4000 CD players, they had a whole section on cool things on the Net. Two of the first places I ever went to were the Trojan Room Coffee Pot, and the CMU Coke machine Web interface. I still have a printout from the CMU machine ca. 1994, using NCSA Mosaic!

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    It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
  2. Bought by a German online news service by affenmann · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was bought by Spiegel-Online, a german online news service.
    The announcement is here (in German - try the babelfish version).