[avuserow]

We did use it for various mechmania sessions as the game communication port. During my time, we also had a running joke that in our "spare time", we would implement a telnet server so you could do maintenance to the soda machine.

Did the soda machine ever use it for anything at all? I never did find a conclusive answer to that.

[dsimms]

It did, but it was totally a toy (since it lacked any authentication of its own). We'd occasionally turn it on in the middle of the night and drop a can behind someone hacking away!