[WEB4LIB] diskette vending machine

[Dan Lester]

At 11:47 AM 6/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
>  did my homeworks and I checked the archives.  But I would like to know if
>somebody have another name of a company (+ contact info) selling diskette
>vending machine different than the one mentionned Thu, 9 May 1996
>
>We think that the product mentionned in the archives of Web4Lib is a little
>costly (2648 $) and are wondering if something cheaper has come out lately

Unless you're hung up on it being a machine for that explicit purpose, you 
should be able to purchase a used machine that vends candy or similar 
products.  Many of them will work will for 3.5 inch floppy disks, and an 
old used one (that doesn't take dollar bills, etc.) will do fine if the 
disk price is low enough.

You should also consider talking to the vendor of your candy and 
such.  They just might let you put floppies in one of the candy slots if 
you gave them a cut of it.  Or let them do the whole thing.

Finally, do you sell enough floppies to make it worth having a machine?  We 
considered the options and decided that trading dollar bills for floppies 
across the circ desk was pretty simple for the couple a day we sold.  Much 
less floppy disk business than overdue fine business.

In fact, it might almost be worth it to give floppies away when 
asked....most of us have zillions of old ones, and they're not in big 
demand.  Even new ones are under a quarter each in quantity.

I'll be interested to hear what you decide to do, and why.

cheers

dan

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