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Liggy
registers. See attached picture.
Clocky
"Liggy" <li...@oohay.com> wrote in message
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> The donut shop by my house still uses 2 C-64's as their cash
> registers. See attached picture.
>
This is not a binary group, so the attachments are stripped (at least by my
server). Can you upload them elsewhere?
Liggy
>The donut shop by my house still uses 2 C-64's as their cash
>registers. See attached picture.
Opps, I forgot about that. Try this:
http://picasaweb.google.com/canrideabike/C64#5271272590552314082
christianlott1
Andreas Kohlbach
Yeah, would be interesting. If he has no web space, and it are just a few
images, mail them to me and I put them online.
Then I have to check out that donut shop. :-)
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My Commodore 64 classic game music page at
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Boris
name of the shop?
Liggy
>The donut shop by my house still uses 2 C-64's as their cash
>registers. See attached picture.
It's Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg, IN, USA. They are hooked up to
Sylvania flat screen TV's. Not sure how they are running the cash
drawers. Every time I've been in there, there is some high school kid
working so I haven't asked about them.
I've lived here 10 years and they've been using a C-64 the entire
time. This past year they moved into a bigger building and went from
one C-64 to two.
christianlott1
upgrade time ;)
Dragos
out! on another note, shoot me an email, we have an Indy club with
monthly meetings. Be nice to have a new face.
Osman K Eroktay
todays CPUs are. That's a beautiful picture by the way as well as a shocking
one... :-)
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Bill Buckels
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>This proves that C64 is still capable of doing things we all thought only
>todays CPUs are. That's a beautiful picture by the way as well as a
>shocking one... :-)
When I wrote device drivers for MS-DOS cash registers in the early 90's
there were lots of serial POS devices around. From my work with the MS-DOS
Aztec C cross-compiler for the C64, it wouldn't take much to write a till
program that could use serial I/O to interface to pin pads and other
well-understood serial POS devices on the C64. Generally very few bytes of
data perform what needs to be done for the devices. A simple database is all
that is needed providing the inventory is limited to item numbers and costs
and prices, then you have payment types, and nothing much else.
The amazing and shocking thing is that this donut shop knew what I knew
before I got caught-up in Windows programming around then... a cash register
just needs to go ding! My wallet does the same thing:) only in reverse.
Theirs didn't.
Bill
Joel Koltner
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> The amazing and shocking thing is that this donut shop knew what I knew
> before I got caught-up in Windows programming around then... a cash register
> just needs to go ding!
There a Love's truck stop I know of where the PC-based cash registers use the
generic Windows "ding!" sound whenever they hit "total," "cash tendered," etc.
Somehow it's quite annoying to have such well-known sounds coming from a cash
register...
Dragos
wrote:
> "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote in message
yeah, they have that at some thorntons gas stations too
Kelli Halliburton
> The amazing and shocking thing is that this donut shop knew what I knew
> before I got caught-up in Windows programming around then... a cash register
> just needs to go ding! My wallet does the same thing:) only in reverse.
> Theirs didn't.
Your wallet goes gnid?
Andy Schwartz
over my holiday break. The donuts are out of this world by the way!!
I asked if I could take a picture and the girl behind the counter looked
confused then went to the back and then the owner Michael Hilligoss, came to
the front and asked if I was making fun of his system. I explained I had
seen the posting of his setup on the board and was deleted to see his C=64's
still in use. I asked how long he had been using them and he said he
originally got them from Sears back in the early 80's. He wrote some custom
code in assembler because he couldn't find anything that would take
Indiana's weird tax laws into account. His bakery has been open since 1974.
We has some CMD equipment he was using (ramlinks ect) but they were in
disrepair and since no one fixes them he wasn't using them anymore. His
only complaint was in the power supplies which he has to get off eBay when
they go out. If anyone has extra supplies laying around this would be a
great place to donate them to!!
I asked how he interfaced the cash drawers to his system and he explained
they were not connected. They just manually open them after the sale is
entered into the Commodores. He used to use Commodore monitors but now just
used the composite out to the LED monitors. He also mentioned that they use
the LED's as TV's when business is slow.
He went on to explain he has PC's at home but they are for play and his
Commodores are his work computers.
Andy
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christianlott1
his 'system' :) A little self conscious?
He should be careful about those PSs though. A bad one will fry your
computer. Every now and then they have custom heavy duty supplies on
ebay but I don't think they're very common.
A great way for someone to make $$$ would be to start selling reliable
power supplies. Ask dragos though, you need to be careful who you buy
from ;)
Now that I have this camera I think I'll take a few internal pictures
of the PS I got. I wonder if it could be improved.
Jim Brain
> We has some CMD equipment he was using (ramlinks ect) but they were in
> disrepair and since no one fixes them he wasn't using them anymore. His
> only complaint was in the power supplies which he has to get off eBay when
> they go out. If anyone has extra supplies laying around this would be a
> great place to donate them to!!
Jim
Martin Schemitsch
> He went on to explain he has PC's at home but they are for play and his
> Commodores are his work computers.
I like that! 8-D
> Andy
Martin
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