Management was not entirely convinced that core memory could be made to work in small machines, so Gerry Ottaway was loaned to the team to design a drum memory as a backup.

But the money still has to work in vending machines and ticket dispensers across the continent.

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On September 6, production of the dime was halted as companies testing the new 10-cent piece found that the new pieces would not work in vending machines.

A 11-sided coin was considered, which would have differentiated it from the quarter, but the patterns would not work in vending machines.

It takes advantage of language guarantees about class initialization, and will therefore work correctly in all Java-compliant compilers and virtual machines.

It would work better in vending machines.

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