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    Eine Bäckerei in Indiana nutzt noch immer den 40 Jahre alten Commodore 64 als Registrierkasse


    Eine Bäckerei in Indiana nutzt noch immer den 40 Jahre alten Commodore 64 als Registrierkasse

    https://www.techspot.com/news/106019-bakery-uses-40-year-old-commodore-64s.html

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    23 Comments

    1. Even-Bit5366 on

      They should probably think about upgrading due to security risks

    2. ford7885 on

      Damn.. and I thought I was the last one using a C-64 when I finally sold it in the mid 1990s.

    3. dineramallama on

      Brilliant! And when they run out of available C64’s, they can run an emulator on the cheapest PC they can find and just keep plodding along.

    5. pomonamike on

      Took my daughter to a toy store in Big Bear the other day. She picks out a slime monster of some sort and the little old lady that runs the shop pulls out a yellow legal pad and pencil, writes down “slime, 3.99.” Then under the 3.99 price, she calculates the tax. My daughter hands her the $5 bill I gave her for picking up pinecones, the lady then writes that down, calculates the change in her head, and pulls out the appropriate coin from under her counter and gives it to my daughter.

      What is this, 1850?

      (I was surprised but impressed)

    6. baltarius on

      Don’t try to fix something that works…or don’t upgrade if it answers your needs

    7. No-Worldliness-5106 on

      wdym? it is the top of the line PC available in the market… youth these days do not know the worth of the greatest piece of computing ever…

    10. surfer_ryan on

      The amount of 20+ year old tech being used to run literally everything linked to your finances will shock the shit out of most people.

    11. mrhoopers on

      Y2K – We found a C64 running a secured door. Beast of a machine.

    12. DreadPirateGriswold on

      It works for them. They know how to work it and support it. And they’re happy with the value they get out of it. And they don’t have to go through a conversion to something newer. But then again, they must be okay with not getting the benefits of a modern point of sale system.

    14. thatredditdude101 on

      the amount of debris inside of that thing must be epic. commodores were so versatile and used as cash registers, to control machines in factories and auto shops.

    15. brainiac2482 on

      Cool until you realize there’s 40 years of transactions and no backup when it crashes. Lots of small business owners I’ve personally watched deal with the fallout.

    16. FortLoolz on

      I love stuff like this. When people bring up that e.g. US, or especially Japan are behind when it comes to cashless payment, and modern technologies for ordinary usage (like checks in America’s case, or CDs in Japan’s), I just shrug. I like these peculiarities. They are lеss trackable than the modern electronic stuff as well.

    18. Itchy-Vermicelli-244 on

      Worth a lot of money now. Wonder what an Apple IIE would sell for now.

    19. yosarian_reddit on

      They could eventually upgrade to a Commodore 64 emulator running on a phone.

    23. ZarrenR on

      Hilligloss Bakery in Brownsburg, IN. I go there on occasion. I never got a close look at the system and just assumed it was an early 80s IBM PC.

      Their donuts are good but you have to get there early before they run out.

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