The State - News from May 12, 1988
The California Lottery Commission has started a four-month trial run of selling Lotto 6/49 tickets from do-it-yourself vending machines that work like automated bank tellers. Ten of the new sales devices have been placed in Los Angeles and 90 in Sacramento and Stockton. “The goal is to have Lotto outlets in high-volume locations like supermarkets and eventually airports,” commission spokesman Robert Taylor explained. The vending machines have been named PAL, the initials for Player Activated Lotto. A buyer opens a transaction by placing a finger on a touch-sensitive display screen, which shows operating instructions. Money in the form of $1 or $5 bills is inserted into the right side of the machines, which can accept up to $40 per transaction. The machines do not make change.
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