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Linux On a Used Cash Register

Posted by timothy on from the paper-plastic-or-canvas dept.

codewolf writes: "Looking at this site, it seems that if someone has enough time on their hands, they can get Linux to run on just about anything. Looks like this guy got Red Hat Linux running on an Ultimate Techonologies Corporation cash register. This is a great hack if you ask me."

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  1. Its a P233 pc by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Kinda neat, but its a P233 pc. Really the only cool thing is the led display. I have an old IBM thermal printer that uses fax paper also, used it on my c64. Now put linux on a c64 (load "linux",8,1) and I will be impressed.

  2. What about a calculator? by fireboy1919 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think that this is actually a little smaller...
    Look at the bottom of the page.
    There's a Linux shell for TI-89!
    http://www.ticalc.org/pub/89/asm/shells/

    Now for more wierdness...how about Linux on an oscilloscope? I know a guy who wrote "pong" for it using anolog circuits. Perhaps someone should take it further.

    They could use a TV remote as the interface and an adapted LCD driver chip to do it cheap...

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