CASH REGISTER FAILURES?????

taking money from people instead of giving it out ?

jano wrote:

From my personal observations, the most likely failure of a cash register is the human interface. Perhaps buttons should be larger, or the keys arranged differently.

In any case, ordinary "cash registers" are quite rare in my part of the world (Southern California); most registers now incorporate bar code scanners and weight scales, and are more of a computer terminal with a cash drawer than a stand-alone device.

Ed

Ed Price( snipped-for-privacy@cox.net) showed us the following results:

Same here in Brazil, and I can already see a "failure mode" for them:

- Most PC-based "cash registers" I've seen run Windows configured to boot directly into the special software (a line in the registry AFAIK); there is no way to properly shutdown it as the keyboard is "custom".

Since the machines have no CTRL+ALT+DEL, ALT+F4, no way to shutdown...

And getting a Visual C++ runtime error while there's a lot of people waiting to pay, is no fun. :/