The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 32, August 10, 2003, Article 19

COINLESS SLOT MACHINES

  An article in Wired magazine reports that
  "...  one casino after another is abandoning coin-operated
  machines, adopting instead slots with new technology, known
  prosaically as Ticket-in/Ticket-out, which replaces nickels,
  dimes and quarters with paper tickets.

  Players start off by inserting paper currency into the machines.
  The slot then keeps track of the winnings. When players are
  ready to cash out -- assuming there's anything left -- they get a
  bar-coded card, which they can take directly to a cashier or to
  another of the casino's slots."

  "The casinos and slot-machine makers say that players want
  them. They say players are tired of idling for up to 30 minutes
  before floor managers show up to pay off sizable jackpots --
  which the old slots never have been able to pay in full.  And
  they say players no longer want to lug around coin-laden cups
  or get their hands dirty gathering up hundreds of coins of
  questionable provenance."

  "But others feel nothing can replace good, old-fashioned coins.
  "Coinless machines take away part of the fun," says Brownstein.
  "It's like using a thick cond at m when you're having s at x."

  http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59871,00.html

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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