BSOD on coffee machine
Today I saw a BSOD in “Dumpert” on Geenstijl (dutch). It’s a photo of a coffee machine that shows a huge “blue screen of death”. Now I wonder what a coffee machine is doing with a screen like that and why the hell it runs windows. The story doesn’t tell if the machine is still capable of serving coffee. The machine actually looks a lot like some coffee machines I’ve seen elsewhere but without the huge screen. These are from Maas International. So I checked out the website and this is the SL1000. It has several options and extra’s and one of them is a 24” LCD flatscreen and DVD player. Here are the specs (pdf/dutch). I still don’t know why the SL1000 needs windows anyway? Is the DVD player windows based? Is this a customized machine?
Here’s the picture…
February 27th, 2008 at 21:45
Wow, that’s a bigass screen!
About time we worker drones get some entertainment with our coffee.
Help us forget we spend our days in fluorescent hell, going to meetings nobody cares about, building software nobody is ever going to use.
July 22nd, 2008 at 22:27
Isn’t the display connected to the company netwerk so this could be an error on the pc instead of the coffee machine ?
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:53
@Mike:
I’m sorry the specs are in dutch so it’s a bit hard to read the specs for non-dutch readers. The machine is actually not connected to a network. The large display is connected to a computer running windows inside the coffee-machine. This is a dedicated computer for the big screen so the machine will still pour cups of coffee amd tea.