A bakery in Indiana is still using the 40-year-old Commodore 64 as a cash register

A bakery in Indiana is still using the 40-year-old Commodore 64 as a cash register

Photos have recently surfaced showing that Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg, Indiana, uses a pair of Commodore 64s as cash registers. While running a business on a 42-year-old PC might seem unusual, the device likely has sufficient processing power to ring up orders of donuts.Read Entire Article

Indiana bakery still used Commodore 64 in 21st century

The Commodore 64, released by the long-dead manufacturer in 1982 with 64kb of RAM and capable of displaying 16 colors at once, is more than merely alive. It was still performing inventory and point-of-sale duty at the Hilligoss Bakery bakery in Indiana as last as 2015. — Read the rest The post Indiana bakery still used Commodore 64 in 21st century appeared first on Boing Boing.

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