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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 02:03:15 JST silverwizard

   Since all the search engines have died - does anyone remember the story of the IBM coffee mug?

   I can't find any of the info and I'm looking for:
   1) one of them
   2) just the history

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 02:06:49 JST silverwizard

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     • chiasm
     @chiasm I thought MIT had the coffee pot camera?
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     chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 02:06:50 JST chiasm

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     @silverwizard Wasn't it MIT? And a coffee pot rather than a mug? or am I thinking of a different story?

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     chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 02:14:45 JST chiasm

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     @silverwizard That is what I was thinking of. What's the coffee mug story?

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 02:16:05 JST silverwizard

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     • chiasm
     @chiasm legend (and old school IBM techs) speak of a coffee mug which was immune to spilling, the only thing that could be drunk from in IBM DCs. IBM developed and patented a design for a sippy cup for nerds in order to save computers.
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     chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 02:24:08 JST chiasm

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     @silverwizard oh wow, first I've heard of *that*. 😄 I hope you find a reference!

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:16:40 JST silverwizard

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     • Kicou
     @kicou do you have any leads? I swear this was a thing I've heard of, and you might know?
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 22:29:56 JST silverwizard

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     • Kicou
     @kicou I had never heard this story, but it doesn't jive with my memory of the datacenter sippy cup, but I like it
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     Kicou (kicou@kicou.info)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 22:30:00 JST Kicou

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     @silverwizard you were probably thinking of the Amdahl coffee mug?

     https://www.deadprogrammer.com/fud-you

     https://dealwhisperers.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-million-dollar-coffee-cup.html?m=1

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