The Trojan Room Coffee Machine

About this service

A video capture board in an Acorn Archimedes grabs one frame every second and the WWW server requests a frame from it using MSRPC2 (indirectly). Each frame is JPEG encoded by the Archimedes.

The online coffee pot actually predates our World Wide Web server by some time. If you want to know how it all came about, take a look at its (non-technical) biography.

The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory home page is here.

Note:

The lights in the Trojan Room aren't always switched on, but we try to leave a small lamp pointing at the coffee pot so you can see it at night.

Apart from the fares to get here, you need to be a member of the coffee club before partaking.

Local radio report

We are grateful to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire for giving permission to put this audio file on the Web.