• Flying SquidOP
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    06 hours ago

    They didn’t come as cash registers out of the box.

    • @whaleross
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      4 hours ago

      They didn’t come as cash registers out of the box.

      It’s okay to say that you don’t know. I don’t and I want to know. No need for arrogance.

      From the pictures it looks like they are sitting on top a spring loaded manual cash box with a key. If the cash boxes are electronic and the C64s are interfacing them somehow, I’m more impressed that they are still working with all that mechanical action in a particle dense environment. If the software is loaded from disk or tape drive, yeah I’m pretty impressed by them working too. Maybe the C64s are dust proofed in some clever way or they have a routine to open them up for cleaning? And if the cash boxes and the breadboxes are connected, I want to know more about it. Finally, are there more modifications than this? I see there are stickers on some buttons. Any additional hardware attached? Or is it actually and literally an out of the box C64 sitting on top a manual cash box running some custom software in BASIC?

      Edit: words be hard