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by thatjpwing
21 Feb 2021 12:29
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Replies: 100
Views: 95489

Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning

Does anybody remember what the guidance lights on the NCR 255 for the cashier were? I can see them in a few pictures but can't make out the words. Also, would anyone know where to get a copy of the operator manual for the NCR 255? I used to have a copy many years ago, but can't find it. NCR says th...
by thatjpwing
25 Oct 2020 20:00
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Kmart checkouts over the years
Replies: 26
Views: 12482

Re: Kmart checkouts over the years

In the early 1990s Target was indeed running IBM 4683 registers but not with IBM’s General Sales Application but a third party software package. I’m still trying to determine if they contracted that out or if they developed the software in house. The Target receipts had two-digit line numbers but d...
by thatjpwing
21 Jul 2020 13:38
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Kmart checkouts over the years
Replies: 26
Views: 12482

Re: Kmart checkouts over the years

It seemed like in the early 90's they got different equipment and it was from a variety of providers. In the late 90's Kmart had managed to move most of the locations to the IBM Supermarket Software even if they were not using IBM Hardware. For a while Kmart ran its old software in the non-Supercen...
by thatjpwing
21 Jul 2020 13:33
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Kmart checkouts over the years
Replies: 26
Views: 12482

Re: Kmart checkouts over the years

I believe Kmart was using software made by a POS company (PSI or Post Software International) based in Raleigh, N.C. in the mid to late 1990s running on a variety of hardware. I have receipt images from that area, and knowing what I do about point of sale hardware, it’s obvious the receipts are prin...
by thatjpwing
19 Jul 2020 19:07
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Replies: 100
Views: 95489

Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning

I don't remember the DTS 500/2500 registers having a customer display integrated into the cash register housing, generally they had a single-line, 20 character display on a pole mounted near the cash register. The Models 300 and 400 usually had a customer display that could be mounted either on the ...
by thatjpwing
09 Jul 2020 19:07
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Replies: 100
Views: 95489

Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning

Aware/4680 (AW Computer Services like you mentioned) was also capable of running Datachecker terminals on IBM 4680 OS. Safeway did this for their Datachecker terminals from the early 1980s, and I'm pretty sure Price Chopper in New York State did the for their DTS 500 and DTS 2500 terminals. Aware/4...
by thatjpwing
07 Jul 2020 22:31
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Replies: 100
Views: 95489

Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning

I remember Aware/4680 running IBM 3683 registers for Ames Department Stores in the early-mid 1990s. There was an adapter box attached to the back of the old IBM 3683 registers and they would communicate with controller PCs running IBM 4680s. I did some contract work on IBM 4680 OS for Ames back in t...
by thatjpwing
28 Apr 2020 20:05
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Kmart checkouts over the years
Replies: 26
Views: 12482

Re: Kmart checkouts over the years

Kmart had a wide selection of electronic cash registers before they settled into the IBM system that has evolved over the past 20 years. Kmart used NCR Class 5 mechanical cash registers well into the late 1970s and in places, the early 1980s. When stores upgraded to electronic registers, I saw these...