Grinds just the right amount of coffee for your individual taste, brewing it just long enough to suit you perfectly. It will be able to do this for many, many people on any given day, making it the ideal coffee machine to install in an office.

As it's steam-powered the steeping and brewing should be a snap.
-- UnaBubba, Apr 30 2001

Analytical Engine by Charles Babbage http://www.fourmila...babbage/sketch.html
This is really worth reading if you a computer geek, or into micromechanical engineering. This guy was the granddaddy of them all. [UnaBubba, Apr 30 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Definitely in favour of this. (Almost) anything which adds unnecessary complexity to domestic objects gets my vote, particularly if steam is involved.
-- angel, Apr 30 2001


Since the good Mr Babbage baked the computer, with the help of his son in 1906, long before International Business Machines got a look in, Java will be dead easy, as will of course Jamaican, Kenyan, Papua New Guinean, Brazilian, Costa Rican and Colombian. None of these have yet been released onto an unsuspecting Geek community, but... watch this space.
-- UnaBubba, May 01 2001


just curious, is the steam generated by coal, oil, or gas? I think that the coal would impart a certain subtle flavor to the brew. large noisy trucks would also be involved, always a plus.
-- wireguy, Oct 31 2001


Coal then, along with surplus ponytail fasteners, photocopy paper wrappers, confidential documents marked for destruction, broken pencils, redundant employees, stuff from the office refrigerator which is more than five years old...
-- UnaBubba, Nov 01 2001


Errm, uummm, a-a-a-aaahhhr... ... I don't know that there is one. It's all just a big mystery, wrapped in a hazard. Or is that a hazard, wrapped in a mystery?
-- UnaBubba, Nov 01 2001



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