Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine

[George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>]

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).


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-george william herbert
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