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Indiana bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as cash registers — Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg sticks to the BASICs (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago

Why create e-waste and spend money you don't have to when your existing retro hardware not only works fine but gives customers something to talk about?

I wish more people thought this way.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    What do you suppose is the name of the point-of-sale software they're using?

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The C64 Mini and C64 Maxi are readily available today and affordably priced, making spare parts easily accessible.

    If those work well enough for them, I cannot see any benefit of upgrading.

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    [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How do they save transactions reliably? To floppy? Or tape?

    What if the disk/tape is full.

    I love it, but seems a bit flakey

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    They make user port carts with SD cards that basically function as hard drives these days (though I doubt they would be using them). There is also paper as a record which may meet any requirements they have.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    They probably don't and it's just for pricing and printing receipts...

    I guess they could record the sales using carbon copy receipt paper.

    Realistically it only needs to hold info for the day. It's a bakery. They just need to know how much money should be in the cash drawer.

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