[150158] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Fri Feb 17 19:51:52 2012
In-Reply-To: <21184089.3557.1329523743081.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:51:00 -0800
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Aled Morris" <aledm@qix.co.uk>
>
>> On 17 February 2012 18:43, Eric Tykwinski <eric-list@truenet.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > +1 for GBICs, SFPs
>
>> You'll need to be carrying a lot of loose change then :-)
>
> In fact, vending machines with builtin card readers and radio credit card
> validation are stock items these days.
I was informed just a bit ago that one of the Equinix datacenters in
the SF Bay Area that I haven't been in to yet in fact has an old coke
machine that someone set up with a credit card reader and, among other
things, it apparently dispenses GBICs.
This could be someone playing a game of radio from the conversation
here, but he's not on NANOG (or so he says).
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
