Computer Weekly@50: What happened in IT in March over the years

7/11

March 9, 1972: Supermarket check-out terminal for Britain

Source:  TNMOC
???photostory.???

The supermarket check-out is not the place to go to without any cash, or so one would have thought. But now a retail point-of-sale terminal called ATROS, has been brought to this country by MSI Data Corporation of California, at which the check-out clerk does not enter prices, but only the code for the goods. The terminal, linked to a computer, records the right price according to the number of each item purchased or its weight.

The National Museum of Computing has also provided us with full hi-res scans of the pages in this gallery. You can read all the articles featured by downloading this PDF >>

View All Photo Stories
CIO
Security
Networking
Data Center
Data Management
Close