Linux Based Point of Sale?

[Ben Scott]

On Jan 15, 2008 3:27 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> Given the choice between a cash drawer that runs on a barely-
> working windows driver or a cash drawer that has an RJ45 in the back
> so it can take a REST-ful HTTP command on its uclinux stack, you'll
> always find the former, or at least I did.

  Maybe you're looking for the wrong thing.  I wouldn't want to pay
for all that network-connected stuff when the sole need is a solenoid
to pull the catch back and release the drawer.  You can do that by
stealing a signal line from an RS-232 serial port.  What I would want
is documentation which states what that interface is.  Though I would
expect that is lacking, too.  :-)

-- Ben