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MaggieL · 08-30-2002, 08:54 PM

This actually does more than allow a student to monitor whether the cycle is done or not (although having used shared laundry facilities in the past, that's a noble goal). It also allows the students to debit their laundry usage directly to their student accounts. Collecting cash and repairing coin-op mechanisms is a major part of the cost of running laundromats.

This is just the beginning of net-connected things-you-would-not-expect-to-be-net-connected. IPV6 will barely arrive in time.

08-30-2002, 08:54 PM	#2
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	This actually does more than allow a student to monitor whether the cycle is done or not (although having used shared laundry facilities in the past, that's a noble goal). It also allows the students to debit their laundry usage directly to their student accounts. Collecting cash and repairing coin-op mechanisms is a major part of the cost of running laundromats. This is just the beginning of net-connected things-you-would-not-expect-to-be-net-connected. IPV6 will barely arrive in time. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."