Comment Re:Yay! (Score 1) 650
The pilot machines and the current rollout of USPS APCs are completely different. I'm not sure how, if at all, the application libraries and interface themselves carried over, but underneath the covers a lot of the hardware changed.
No more cash/coin dispensers. No stamp sheetlet dispenser (I'm pretty sure), replaced with a secure stamp printer. New ADA devices, new camera. Different invoice/receipt printer. Funky things like a 1U rackmount UPS mounted vertically against the inside wall, for space considerations.
It's a funky design based on a heavily-modified ATM shell from a Europeen company, with an add-on "sidecar" for extended postal functions. Much more compact than the initial IBM pilot machines.
No more cash/coin dispensers. No stamp sheetlet dispenser (I'm pretty sure), replaced with a secure stamp printer. New ADA devices, new camera. Different invoice/receipt printer. Funky things like a 1U rackmount UPS mounted vertically against the inside wall, for space considerations.
It's a funky design based on a heavily-modified ATM shell from a Europeen company, with an add-on "sidecar" for extended postal functions. Much more compact than the initial IBM pilot machines.
