Trying to find information about IBM Point of Sale systems and 4690 OS

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Trying to find information about IBM Point of Sale systems and 4690 OS

Aunt Beth: Feb 24, 2006; Baby, you're ready!; Grimey Drawer

I've worked with 4690 before. What are your goals with getting a test system up and running? It's really just a bone-simple DOS interface on the backend to support the diskless boot of the terminals and then handle sales data.

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Aunt Beth: Feb 24, 2006; Baby, you're ready!; Grimey Drawer

Michaeldim posted:

I would hope to get my hands on one of the sales programs IBM wrote, like SurePOS ACE or the General sales application.

But if I can't, I'm sure I could do something with just the OS, if I could boot terminals with it.

Newer 4690 versions support VMWare as a controller, with that, I could boot my real register as a terminal.

Ah. Yeah that's really hard to come by. One of my customers works with a very highly modified version and it's nothing they could or would want to give away a copy of, even to a surely benign enthusiast.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 04:36

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