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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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[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days 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

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days 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.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 4 days 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.