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You'd think so, but I can't find anyone had actually been using it as such. Since it can read and write tapes, it seems it would be perfectly suited to running
by spiderxxxx 3y ago
You'd think so, but I can't find anyone had actually been using it as such. Since it can read and write tapes, it seems it would be perfectly suited to running a retail store's day to day business. The barcode scanner and some basic database software would have probably sold like hotcakes as a portable POS system.
- aidenn0 3y agoWere there barcode scanners that were efficient enough to be battery-operated in 1981?
- kalleboo 3y agoLooks like there was one you had to swipe over the barcode, likely just a single CCD type device https://computarium.lcd.lu/photos/albums/EPSON_HX20/album/slides/DSC03181.html https://computarium.lcd.lu/photos/albums/EPSON_HX20/album/sl...
- rbanffy 3y agoThe printer is very slow, one line at a time. It would not be great as a POS terminal, but it could connect to a serial printer over RS-232 and external disks and a screen via the other TTL-level 36400 bps port.