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echo: fidopols
to: Frank Vest
from: John Donohue
date: 2003-01-18 14:21:02
subject: Libraries & Fidonet

FV> dollar in the terminal and has "x" amount of time on the system. It
 FV> would be a literal "cafe".

 FV> Now, where can we get "coin-op" computers at?? :-))

Actually there was a company that did something like that; we got the sales
brochures (this was back when public access computers first became a
reality) I'll have to look and see if I still have that in the file cabinet
at work. There's also a similar solution for TCP/IP based networks where
you schedule a login and appt. time on a master console; there's a demon
process running on the client that enables/disables the login/workstation
accordingly. 
Neither of these products was cheap, and by the time they became available,
we (and probably most libraries) had already dealt with the target problems
in some other cheaper low-tech manner.


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