Linux Based Point of Sale?

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 18:05:53 EST 2008


On Jan 15, 2008 4:28 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.  :-)

  Another question to ask here I think is..

  "How much are you looking to spend on hardware?"

-- 
-- Thomas


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