Shopping Tills

MrVestek · 13-07-2005 10:34PM #1

Ok was in a new toy shop in The Square with my little brother the other day. Went to buy what I had got and just as I was about to pay the girl behind the counter apologised as the till had crashed yet again and that she'd only be a sec. I was just about to say 'Well that's what you get for Having Windows on a till' untill I saw the post...

'DOS 6.22 is starting...'

:eek:

I mean it was a new high tech till. And tbh M$ would have had to be doing some serious crap to the latest release of DOS (whenever it was) to have such a simple OS crash!!!

alleepally · 13-07-2005 10:37PM

Achilles wrote:

I was just about to say 'Well that's what you get for Having Windows on a till' untill I saw the post...

lol, that's such a techie thing to say!!

KTRIC · 13-07-2005 10:41PM

I seen an ATM crash last week and it had NT4 on it. The nerd in me thought it was hilarious while my cool biker side told me to STFU !!

Stabshauptmann · 13-07-2005 10:41PM

I work in Dunnes and the tills never crash. There couldnt possibly be a simpler system.

My brother works in Shaws, they've some interface built on DOS. Crashes are routine, but he can do more and doesnt need a managers key for price overrides or voids.

Stabshauptmann · 13-07-2005 10:43PM

K-TRIC wrote:

I seen an ATM crash last week and it had NT4 on it. The nerd in me thought it was hilarious while my cool biker side told me to STFU !!

Happened to me too, so I wipped out my phone to take a picture. Why is an atm using windows?

KTRIC · 13-07-2005 10:45PM

Kaptain Redeye wrote:

Happened to me too, so I wipped out my phone to take a picture. Why is an atm using windows?

It's one of the more stabler OS's from Microsoft. And the licences for it these days are very cheap.

aidan_walsh · 13-07-2005 10:47PM

Kaptain Redeye wrote:

Happened to me too, so I wipped out my phone to take a picture. Why is an atm using windows?

Since most ATMs are essentially dumb terminals, chances are it was the server running NT4.[/nerdy pedant]

Nightwish · 13-07-2005 11:04PM

was it in Argos by any chance

StonedParadoX · 13-07-2005 11:09PM

Lol!

Nightwish · 13-07-2005 11:15PM

StonedParadoX wrote:

Lol!

I'm serious! I work for the company and the tills crash the whole time. the entire system is in DOS mode.......losers

John R · 13-07-2005 11:52PM

Most of those machines are built around ancient (by PC standards) hardware. 386 chips are widely used, they are cheap and reliable also no cooling fans required.

rainbow kirby · 14-07-2005 12:28AM

Ours are built on Winblows NT and run on Celeron chips and I thought ours were ancient... lol.

Sparky · 14-07-2005 12:56AM

wy cousin has a digital juke box machine with the touch screen in the pub and one morning it crashed only to display windows 95

Makaveli · 14-07-2005 01:09AM

In Ladbrokes they run on Windows 2000, but one of the programs we run is prone to run time errors which crashes everything. Extremely annoying.

Lotto machines in shops run on linux. [/Pointless info]

Sparky · 14-07-2005 01:12AM

ive seen the flight depature and arrival screens crashing in dublin airport only to reveal windows 98 booting up

SoupyNorman · 14-07-2005 01:27AM

The computers have to be wound up by a crank in the mornings to get them going where i work.

Lump · 14-07-2005 08:24AM

Statoil use NT, they've crashed a couple of times, although that was more the software controlling the pumps.

John

WexCan · 14-07-2005 08:33AM

A lot of department stores (well Roches, BT, HoF) run NT and ObjectPOS software from some company called NSb or something like that. HoF run Dell and HP boxes, BT has integrated Siemens machines and I don't have a clue about Roches.

And when I was in HoF they crashed on a daily basis - there was one till that was guaranteed to go blank every morning. Like clockwork.

Now THERE'S pointless info for you.

Red Alert · 14-07-2005 08:47AM

ObjectPOS is an undeniable piece of ****, about the only thing in its favour are those funky coloured buttons. The only place it ever seems to work is in A-Wear (at least the IBM Registers are virtually indestructable), too bad I don't/can't shop there.

The only good tills are the one's in Dunne's or Penny's (we used to have them before we switched to ObjectPos). Ran OS/2, no local disk, boot off network, no video display. Up and running in 10 seconds or less and never crash.

WexCan · 14-07-2005 08:57AM

Red Alert wrote:

The only good tills are the one's in Dunne's or Penny's (we used to have them before we switched to ObjectPos). Ran OS/2, no local disk, boot off network, no video display. Up and running in 10 seconds or less and never crash.

I wouldn't be able to work with those little displays - thank god I now have a desk, a posh IP phone, a cute lil headset, a decent computer and flat panel. And a comfortable chair. That was one thing I couldn't stand about retail - standing.

Oh and old tills - Clerys wins for the ugliest.

delly · 14-07-2005 09:12AM

I still work with a lot of systems that run on DOS, and besides the odd maxtor hard disk crashing, the relibility is good. Most of the modern POS software has to deal with its own bugs as well as windows which can always throw up a wobbler.

mp3guy · 14-07-2005 09:14AM

Makaveli wrote:

Lotto machines in shops run on linux. [/Pointless info]

thats because it doesn't randomly fcuk up

joejoem · 14-07-2005 09:15AM

Kaptain Redeye wrote:

I work in Dunnes and the tills never crash.

My brother works in Shaws,

Your mammy must be so proud.

Im sorry, I just saw the joke and couldnt resist.Sorry again.

Crunch · 14-07-2005 09:22AM

Saw the BOI atm in Cork crash one more than one occasion a few years ago. Was running Dos.

Megatron · 14-07-2005 09:39AM

Crunch wrote:

Saw the BOI atm in Cork crash one more than one occasion a few years ago. Was running Dos.

there's only 1 BOI atm in cork :eek: :eek:

I know i know ... /gets jacket

Chong · 14-07-2005 10:12AM

As far as I know I believe Dunnes Stores System run RPG. [Piece of Pointless Info]

parsi · 14-07-2005 10:16AM

bravestarr082 wrote:

The computers have to be wound up by a crank in the mornings to get them going where i work.

And what does the crank do for the rest of the day ? Visit people and moan about the poor systems he has to work with ?

thelordofcheese · 14-07-2005 10:30AM

As far as i know the LUAS touchscreen kiosk thingys run on Windows 2k,

irlirishkev · 14-07-2005 11:20AM

The in-branch terminals in AIB run on Win 3.1.

Beat that.

K.

Sleepy · 14-07-2005 11:25AM

There's a good reason the pass machines run on old software: they have to. My Dad handles the implementations of new systems in one of the major banks in Ireland. When they tried upgrading from their old 386/486 machines to the early pentiums (The early ones with 100Mhz chips) the machines simply died. The mechanical functions of the machine weren't able to keep up with such fast(!) processing power and kept breaking down.

AFAIK, most of the machines are still running off 486 chipsets, though this could have changed since my Dad told me that story about 2/3 years ago.

WexCan · 14-07-2005 11:26AM

My work computer runs XP Pro. The McDonalds tills run some obscure OS with a POS program called "PC PLUS"

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