McDonald’s Panasonic Cash Register POS
by on Friday, April 1st, 2011 | 25 Comments
This is a genuine point of sale system that was used in a local McDonald’s from 2001 until 2007 or so.
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Can u Put Win 2000 , XP , Vista , or 7 on That ?
or Maybe Mac OS 8 , 9 , or X 10
sweet! can you make a video of windows running on that badboy?
Weird… The (Canadian) McDonald’s I’ve worked at or seen run the same units, but with Windows 2000 software on it.
i want one!
We now have Panasonic Js-950ws registers and they are ok except for the fact that we dont know how to calibrate the touch screens on them.
@TheGeek1028 We have IBM Surepos 500 registers at work. They suck. Last few years, they would all keep breaking down.
Have you pushed the CE button and tried to enter a manager’s code? If you can get into system management, do change keystation and set it to front counter. It should then allow you to take orders, but will give out error messages.
This would make a nice kitchen decoration. When you have guests over and they want something to eat, goto the POS computer, and pretend to ring them up!
Hi, I’ve always wanted one of these, how much do you want for it?
@bbishoppcm ha well I guess that’s a reason not to grab any.
We use them at work so I’m a little familiar with them. I think the ones you describe we don’t use anymore, we have the white and silver ones that stand up.
@ManiacalMichael504 Why? I HATE Wyse terminals! (actually, there was an entire bin filled with the phosphor green ones w/ ceiling mounts).
Nice find! Too bad you didn’t score any Wyse terminals.
I read this as “McDonald’s Panasonic Cash Register Piece Of Shit”
@taluzoid Erm…yeah? That’s what I said?
@Danny77uk POS peice of shit
that would be awesome if you put windows on it
MS-DOS 6.x doesn’t recognize anything higher than 64 MB of RAM, so your upgrade didn’t change anything unless you install different software on it.
I remember the old cash registers at McDonalds with the orange neon 7-segment displays, so the ones not in use would say “CLOSEd”.
In some areas you can find Burger Kings that still have the cashier call out the orders to the kitchen over a microphone. I think McD’s is more strict about requiring everyone to use the latest system.
keep it it would make a nice kitchen decoration
The rj 45 port is a com port to drive the serial printer also know as a receipt printer.The bottom slot is for a MSR reader. The reset is on the bottom is a hard reset button if it gets locked up, The diag dir runs all the tests to find out if anything is wrong with it. It also lets you calibrate the touch screen. and test front
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in the I worked for NCR for 9.5 years until becoming totlay disabled in 2004. I had to work on those all the time I had 4 MCdonalds in my area to service.
@TheDataZoo Linux would be better, up to date operating system.
I read that as Piece Of Shit.
I used to work at Shell, serving customers with one of those touch-screen things. I hated it. The hard screen really did my fingers in after a while and my wrist ached. It was running Windows 98, an OS not suited to a touch-screen. I often had to close the station down because the stupid thing would freeze up.
Really cool find! Just too bad you can’t test it further.
@TheDataZoo Very easily; this will run up tom Windows 2000 comfortably.
@hmerrett You are right; this is covered in the service manual. The third com port can be switched from the customer display connector to the external connector via dip switch setting.
@Zagroseckt The “replaceable overlay” is exactly that; there is a thin sheet of plastic that protects the delicate touch screen membrane. This was a design feature that saves the cost of an entire display as a result of employee vandalism/wear and tear. The drive definitely sounds like it’s going to grenade any time soon.