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Point of Sale software

TCPMetaTCPMeta
edited August 2014 in Software
I need a point of sale suite for some older PAR brand registers.
The registers have Pentium 166MHz, 16MB ram, serial based touch screen and ne2000 compatible ethernet.

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  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    So like.... Win 3.x or WinCE are your main options?
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    The system can run Linux/BSD and Win95 also.
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    But are there drivers for the touch screen on all of these OSes?

    What type of storage is on them?
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    Not sure for Win95 but I know there is a universal 4 wire touch screen driver. some older 2.4x Linux kernels have support for serial based touch screens.

    Uses typical PATA hard drives but the BIOS only handles a single channel, currently has a 40GB hard drive.
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    So the ram is the main bottleneck. My googling shows a bunch of newer free POS stuff, or "opos drivers" for pretty much every version of windows. Sadly not finding much about legacy pos software.
  • nikkigreg1974nikkigreg1974
    At this link you can get point of sale program. Here the link http://keyhut.com/pos.htm . It's for dos but it said it can be ran on windows systems.
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    That looks like a posibility for him I guess. TCPMeta you didn't exactly list much for your requirements, are you looking for something full fledged that needs to process credit cards and stuff too or will those be separate devices from the CC processor?
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    sorry for the late reply. The CC reader uses a serial port but I found one that can work over ethernet that will connect to a POS server for the register to sync with. the printer connects via paralell port but a simple generic driver works find for that. I dont have a wand scanner for UPC barcodes and a keyboard isn't a option. I wonder if I can run that POS software nikkigreg posted about will work in wfwg3.11 with a on-screen keyboard.
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    Signs point to yes:
    http://keyhut.com/posystem.htm
    DOS 2.11 or higher
    Windows 3.1
    Windows '95
    Windows '98
    Windows 2000
    Windows ME
    Windows XP
    Windows Vista
    Note: This software will not function on computers with 64 bit processors no matter what operating system is used unless you run it under a program like DOSBOX.
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