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Indiana bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as cash registers — Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg sticks to the BASICs (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago

They probably don't and it's just for pricing and printing receipts...

I guess they could record the sales using carbon copy receipt paper.

Realistically it only needs to hold info for the day. It's a bakery. They just need to know how much money should be in the cash drawer.