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Early electronic cash registers

2025-11-14T22:22:46Z

CathodeRayDude: Created page with "I don't know much about this yet. Electronic cash registers appear to have appeared in the early 70s, but given the prevalence of tube-based and early transistor-based desktop calculators with computer-style flavors in the mid-late 60s, I have the feeling they were around by 1969. A lot of info on these is scattered around the [https://vintagepointofsale.com/category/system-manufacturers/data-terminal-systems/ Vintage Point Of Sale] blog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?..."

I don't know much about this yet. Electronic cash registers appear to have appeared in the early 70s, but given the prevalence of tube-based and early transistor-based desktop calculators with computer-style flavors in the mid-late 60s, I have the feeling they were around by 1969.

A lot of info on these is scattered around the [https://vintagepointofsale.com/category/system-manufacturers/data-terminal-systems/ Vintage Point Of Sale] blog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR46VzCAZ8I seems to be a good contemporary (70s) piece of footage including NCR registers that, from their bulk, I suspect are self-contained rather than terminals for a backroom server.
[[File:Data Terminal Systems S100.png|none|thumb|Data Terminal Systems register from late 70s?]]
I am not sure of the details on the above but I think this DTS machine is from the mid-late 70s, and is a standalone register, not a terminal for a backroom server.

More information on the DTS lineup (though not this model) can be found on the [https://vintagepointofsale.com/category/system-manufacturers/data-terminal-systems/ Vintage POS blog].

File:Data Terminal Systems S100.png

2025-11-12T21:20:44Z

CathodeRayDude:

Early electronic cash register. Looks self-contained rather than terminal/server design.

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2025-11-12T21:14:26Z

CathodeRayDude: /* Cash registers / point of sale */

Hi there. I'm Gravis, proprietor of the [https://www.youtube.com/CathodeRayDude Cathode Ray Dude] youtube channel, through which I publish essays about old technology.

This wiki is a tool I've decided to start using to organize my research data. I claw through an enormous amount of Stuff on my way to reaching conclusions, and it's gotten hard to keep track of what I've found and how it relates to everything else. I hope to use this to make more sense of it all, and I figure I might as well make the results public.

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=== Gadgets ===

==== Cash registers / point of sale ====
[[Early cash registers]]

[[Early electronic cash registers]]