Floppy Vending Machine at UCRiverside

[Pat Flowers]

The UC Riverside vending machine is still in operation. In addition to
(formatted) 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 diskettes, it's also stocked with 3x5 cards,
inexpensive scissors, AA size batteries, pens, Kleenex tissues, bandaids
(15 cents each), Post-It notes, Tylenol, NoDoz, whiteout liquid,
hilighter pens etc. Total of 44 slots; machine takes coins and one
dollar bills. It's the kind of machine that has big metal coils for
dispensers with the product stuck in the loops of the coils (no
individual drawers).

>From the Reference Desk point of view, it works great. Disks are priced
at the Campus Bookstore rate and since the library is open far longer
than the Bookstore, people can get a disk anytime the library is open.

Pat Flowers
Reference Dept, Rivera Library
U California Riverside

Charles P. Hobbs wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Julius Ariail wrote:
> 
> > For the past three years we have used a regular candy/cracker vending
> > machine to dispense floppy disks. If it can drop a pack of M&M's, it can
> > drop a floppy disk.
> 
> I remember seeing a candy machine at UC Riverside's library, full of
> stationery supplies (pens, pencils, erasers, etc.) Perhaps it had disks
> in it too . ..