Re: Barcode scanner via USB
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David Brodbeck wrote:
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| On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
|> When I worked at Radio Shack in 1996 (in Canada), they were just
|> switching their POS from a dos (on a Tandy 386) with terminals to a Unix
|> (SCO) system with the same serial terminal. For barcode, they had a
|> device that went between the keyboard and the terminal. Apparently,
|> that way there was no software difference between manually typing in the
|> barcode number and scanning it.
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| This is called a "keyboard wedge" in the industry. They're extremely
| common but they're slowly being replaced by USB devices as PS/2 keyboard
| ports become less common. A lot of mag stripe readers also work this way.
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thanks for the input guys, talking off list to john as some of this
doesnt pertain to debian.
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