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Linux On a Used Cash Register
Posted by
timothy
on Fri Apr 26, 2002 03:30 AM
from the paper-plastic-or-canvas dept.
from the paper-plastic-or-canvas dept.
codewolf writes: "Looking at this site, it seems that if someone has enough time on their hands, they can get Linux to run on just about anything. Looks like this guy got Red Hat Linux running on an Ultimate Techonologies Corporation cash register. This is a great hack if you ask me."
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well if you need reliability... (Score:5, Funny)
"...you agree by paying this amount, to never divulge what you paid, or purchased, in any form, written, recorded, or electronicly transcribed in any way, to anybody. By having this receipt, you are violating the EUCEA (End User Cash Exchange Agreement) and must distroy this document, or face an audit of all digital processing and storage devices you own."
Re:well if you need reliability... (Score:4, Funny)
Heh, well at Wimbledon station in the UK, they run Windows NT to sell train tickets in one of those electronic hole in the wall ticket dispensers. (Choose ticket, insert money, out pops ticket).
While waiting for my pickup, I amused my self as the machine spontaneously rebooted, saw the NT4 loader in it's comforting blue screen, see Windows launch, autologin, connect to some network shares and start up the ticket selling interface. And then watch it spontaneously reboot again =P
Well it's confirmed... (Score:5, Funny)
What's so special about this? (Score:3, Insightful)
* ASCII Terminal (Just connect to a *nix box)
* PC (Just install linux)
* NC (Can anyone say X)
Now, yes this IS cool, but it's equivilent to someone isntalling linux on a weird looking PC with some cool peripherals.
Not impressive (Score:3, Flamebait)
Its a P233 pc (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Its a P233 pc (Score:5, Informative)
Well ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Linux can run on anything (Score:5, Funny)
I like this (Score:3, Interesting)
Definitely an excellent reason for this project. I can't think of a better one
I'm only surprised that the first use of the display pole was not for uptime/load....
What about a calculator? (Score:5, Interesting)
Look at the bottom of the page.
There's a Linux shell for TI-89!
http://www.ticalc.org/pub/89/asm/shells/
Now for more wierdness...how about Linux on an oscilloscope? I know a guy who wrote "pong" for it using anolog circuits. Perhaps someone should take it further.
They could use a TV remote as the interface and an adapted LCD driver chip to do it cheap...
Enough time? More like way too much time! (Score:3, Funny)
Do you have to mount
J.
Slight bug though... (Score:5, Funny)
Display (Score:3)
Blah! Try it on a real machine! (Score:3, Interesting)
If you're so interested in this, try developing a whole graphical (note: graphical as in has to look similar to their existing Windows setup) Point Of Sale system that will be using FrameBuffer, that will end up running on 486-dx33's, with 16 meg of RAM, and a whopping 420 meg of h/drive space. The place I work for is doing this for an Australia wide chain so that they can install it on their existing hardware. They are in a 'contract' with the old POS supplier to keep the hardware on the desks for a few more years. Poor bastards!
We have most of the extra hardware working (a whole 2 extra serial ports - and while it has a PCMCIA flash card reader, it isn't even worth the worry). The Point Of Sale program itself is written in Kylix (was originally a Delphi app on Windows), using SDL as an interface between the FrameBuffer and Kylix. Fun fun fun!!
Hey, here's an idea (Score:3, Funny)