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Article #621731Re: Osborne 1 with speech synthesis
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:43
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:43
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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes: > The Bell System developed a Transaction Telephone intended to speed > such credit card verification inquiries. I don't think they ever > were widely used; a plain Touch Tone set could do the job almost > as easily, without the extra cost of a fancy phone. > > Since the inquiry is a very brief transaction, a low bandwidth > continuous line would've worked out well, however, I don't think > that approach was taken too far. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#35 Osborne 1 with speech synthesis http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#36 Osborne 1 with speech synthesis http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#38 Osborne 1 with speech synthesis the point-of-sale magstripe terminal with built in modem ... would also run other business processing (longer transaction) at end of shift or once a day. large stores would have all checkout counters connect to store concentrator ... which then ran single line to payment network. the small store individual dialup with single checkout. a lot of these (both concentrators and single POS) have been moving to the internet. trivia: for electronic commerce (i.e. we were brought into small client/server startup that wanted to payment transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce") , was originally adopted from "Shift4" protocol ... a company that was specializing in POS and concentrator for T&E (travel and entertainment), hotels/motels and casinos ... seems to have morphed some over the past 24-25yrs. https://www.shift4.com/ -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
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