The Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg, Indiana proves the modern day efficacy of retro hardware by still using a Commodore 64s for business transactions.

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Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg, Indiana, continues to use Commodore 64 computers, originally released in 1982, for its cash registers. Despite modern pressure to upgrade hardware, the bakery finds the processing power of the Commodore 64 sufficient for point-of-sale transactions. The bakery, established in 1974, prefers to avoid unnecessary upgrades, which also helps reduce e-waste and maintains a unique customer experience.

Indiana bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as cash registers — Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg sticks to the BASICs

Proof technology we have today should last decades instead having a new model every 6 months with fake obsolescence through blocking (or forcing) software updates.

Be curious if they have a different system for credit card purchase or just take cash.
To print reports or recipes, do they use a dot matrix printer that takes 5 minutes to print 3 pages?

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