Installing The Sonic Drive-In Operating System 

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So... 10 years ago I was wandering my local neighborhood, and noticed a large pile of electronics sitting outside my local Sonic. Pulling up, I looked it over, and thought "Hm, why is this e-waste just sitting here? Are they just gonna throw it away? Maybe I could ask the manager if I could have it?" So I walked up to the kiosk, pushed that brand new, shiny, red button, and asked if I could talk to a manager. Some 20 something kid wanders out and says he's the assistant manager, cause the regular manager was gone for the day. I point to the pile of e-waste and ask what the plan is. He says something along the lines of "I have no idea, but if you can make it go away, please do." Well, I have a minivan and too much time, so I agree, and make the pile vanish... into my garage. This wasn't stall screens, but the actual server hardware that ran on-site, along with kitchen screens and button pads, among other things. The real guts of the operation. The 10.21.4.1 the stall spoke to. And a year later I sold the server along with most of the components for about $500. Never managed to image the SAS drives, never collected any data on how it worked. Only thing I have left are the old Serial cards the server used, since they were kinda cool and worked with something else I was toying with. I had the final keys in my hands years ago, and let them slip right through. I have failed the world. PS: I went to another sonic to see if I could get more e-waste, since they all were replacing their hardware, and it turns out that kid was *not* supposed to give that to me. I had no idea at the time, but he probably got fired over that... ooops.

Heya Bringus! I'm a POS technician and work on these workstation 6 units EVERY SINGLE DAY. Seeing you rip one apart and force it to do things it was never meant to do is like my personal catharsis. Thank you for this.

I love how in every video like this he starts with a very clean and nice device/computer and then finishes the video with basically a dead corpse disassembled on the table with bringus performing some insane necromancy on it

their system crashing right as you're about to leave is just the cheese sauce on the pretzel.

As someone who deals with Oracle on the daily, can't wait to see the pain.

The reason the MicrOS Oracle had so many external connectors on the internals, you've gotta think about application. These were devices handled all day 24/7 and were liable to break. Plug and play replacement parts made things a lot easier for the Techs replacing it

Dear God. What’s next, reprogramming a Redbox kiosk?

next time he'll be like "Installing SteamOS on an Apple Vision Pro's battery pack"

As an IT professional who started her journey as the store stock repair tech at Micro Center…who now works at an org where most of my decisions have already been made for me…the unbridled joy I feel watching you cobble together this beautiful monster cannot be overstated. ❤

I’m a Sonic employee but I work in the kitchen so I’m not much help. If you ever need to program a bacon super or a large order of tots I’m here.

I have experience with maintaining POS systems like this for retail/restaurant businesses (although not for Sonic): CD1 & CD2 refer to Cash Drawer 1 & Cash Drawer 2. These and the 12V Out would all be sent to a splitter / Y-cable that would provide both power and trigger signal to the cash drawer(s). The COM ports were typically reserved for thermal printers for printing receipts or for sending order tickets to the printers in the kitchen. Normal USB ports were typically used for barcode scanners for coupons among other random peripherals like base stations for wireless pagers. We didn't use the USB5 port but the "Customer Display" port was connected to an auxiliary front-facing display so the customer would see their order and total as the items were being entered on the main display.

15:52 “ this is a 64-bit household “ 😂😂😂 idk why that was funny asf

0:01 inside ME???

My wife used to work at sonic back in high school and I showed her this video and I have never seen her more interested in a tech video.

omfg the camera panning to the CART SHOWING THE BUTTON FOR 162 DOLLARS IS GOLD!

29:45 the admin login password being in plain text is hilarious

12:44 "*android notification sound* f*ck it android in the bios" has got to be one of my favourite parts of the video

This is the most distinct sound effects per minute of video watched ive ever seen in my life. the mcdonalds beep, stone obelisk asmr, and gmod noises are tickling me pink.

I physically winced at the fact that 2014 was a decade ago

"We can just take the install.wim file from inside of a Windows 7 installer and move it over to the 'sources' folder on a Windows **8** installer [and later a Windows 10 installer]!" Bringus, I thought you were mad when you built the cs_office computer tower and ran games on it, but this is an entirely new level of cursed, janky wizardry. I salute you, sir.

19:36 someone tell this guy that 32bit oses can only handle 4GB of RAM...

35:57 Now you gotta make the oracle gaming

I genuinely laughed out loud at "What a POS" and I hold you responsible for getting my niece riled up, sir. That pun was so bad that I'm mad I didn't make it first.

you are the most impossible to predict channel on this entire platform i could not have seen this coming in a million years lmao

"Sonic2 is bigger than Sonic1 for some reason." I'd assume because Sonic 2 has twice the levels than Sonic 1, but who knows

This has been the most wild ride in any gaming page and it was mostly lower level systems architecture, I love it

the editing and the sound effects specifically bring me joy

The surprise Doug DeMuro got me. God I love that man, even if he can't microphone to save his life

Mom can we get Sonic? We have Sonic at home. Sonic at home:

33:41 Love that Salem Techsperts reference😂

I heard that some Sonic drive-ins use the same Oracle Micros. searched it up.

I am quite honestly disappointed that RU-vid didn't recommend me your channel earlier. You have achieved the perfect combination of technicality & entertainment for us humorous nerds to the point where I'm both learning and giggling. I salute you, and subscribe (obviously)

omg recording the sound of when you tap the end of an aux cable for the speaker bit is such a specific thing to reference and i love you for it lmao

I didn't do work for Micros machines. But when I was at NCR we had VERY similar machines. Those ethernet ports that are labeled com and those CD ports are for receipt printers, debit readers, barcode scanners, and cash drawers. That is why they supply voltage. I had a 7702 that was given to me as trash, I was able to get it back up and running. Eventually mounted it on my wall for a while, then gave it to a friend as I really was not using it. Cool stuff, not nearly as underpowered as people would think.

I have never seen one of you videos before. your editing style is so mesmerizing. I will now consume your content like its the air I breathe

Now go to a Sonic, connect it to their Wi-Fi, open stall.exe and hit the red button 💀

Whats next? Playing Microsoft Flight simulator on an inflight entertainment system?

30:08 Apparently store #2104 is located at 1803 N. St. Joseph in Gonzales, TX.

Man created a windows Frankenstein just to have a sonic menu... What a genius

I used to be IT for restaurants and clubs in Vegas. It’s fun seeing someone discover these POS terminals for the first time. They are very interesting machines. Thanks for the entertainment!😊

Bringus must defeat all of the fast food ordering screens to become the king of calories

Dude your editing style, your presentation, the humor, everything is fuckin’ incredible. Exceptional content please keep making more

I know no one is going to read this but oh well lol. Anyways this video was awesome and gave me idea! Turns out this os image works perfectly on an old dell latitude e5500! I also figured out how to get the slideahow working with special events or campaigns as they call them. Lol love this channel!

SOMEONE Stop this man, Last week he came to wallmart and started installing steam os on everything

Bringus, I love your videos. Not just the ''Installing [OS] on [device]'', but the way you paste in the funny sounds and memes just makes it whole.

Your choices of background music are stellar

This will definitely be a banger EDIT: it was in fact, a burger

oh my god you could TOTALLY start a rumor about how sonic kiosks all have doom installed based on that thing at 29:22

35:30 I'M DYING

2:08 PCI Express? Put a GPU on it and let's game, LFG!

if it helps i could come over and talk muffled from the other side and pretend to be a sonic employee

Man, I have abandoned IT for nearly a decade. I should get back into it. This looks like fun. You literally are doing what I enjoyed. Figuring things out. I would spend hours trying to get something to run or boot only to then spend 5 minutes on it and move on. 😂 This is my first video. But I had to subscribe. And you're pretty funny too! Thanks for the video! Gonna binge some more tonight.

20:54 A well-regulated Windows 7 installer, being necessary to the security of a Windows, the right of the Bringus to keep and bear Command Prompt, shall not be infringed.

This is the software preservation endgame. Soon we will possess the data to preserve all kiosks

Bro This is the first video related to this particular genre that I ever watched And I just want to say one thing You are LEGGEENNNDDDDD❤

8:43 the fact that you made the audio keep playing a bit while the picture froze is equal parts evil and genius.

Dude, you're like a mix of Michael MJD and Dankpods. I freaking love that! Those Half Life sound effects scratch my itch so well...

According to a quick lookup, Sonic #2104 is one of the stores in Gonzales, TX-a town that's east of San Antonio, TX.

33:43 Salem would be proud

I used to work with Micros systems, InfoGenesys, Comtrex, and others, interesting video. For those who aren't aware: COM1 and 2 are Serial Ports and can also be enabled to send voltage to certain things, like a Customer VFD Display, Cash Drawer, etc. COM 5 is just standard Serial Port w/o voltage sending. The CD 1 and 2 are for Cash Drawer's 1 and 2 and I think the PS/2 looking Customer Display also is a serial connection with a different connector. Also that IP Address it's trying to talk to, is definitely a LAN one. Great find none the less, great video!

The internal/external connections for speakers and rj45 for card reader is so technicians that travel to support these things out in the field can easily swap failing hardware

there's a sonic near by where one of it's ordering screens has been blue screened for at least 6 months now

PCI Express on any device: _exists_ Jon Bringus the madman: *Is this a GPU slot?*

Me: "Mom can we go to sonic for some burgers?" Mom: "We have sonic at home honey!" The sonic:

2:50 that’s a sticker for Windows POSReady, which was a version of Embedded designed specifically for point of sale machines. POSReady 7 is based on Windows 7 and was deprecated one year after 7 was. It had a unique startup screen, too. Presumably, because of which Microsoft logo is on that license sticker , that originally ran POSReady 8 based on Windows 8. Not actually 100% sure on that one though. The previous generation of Walmart’s self-checkout terminals (the ones with the number on a light-up box on a stick) ran POSReady 7. No idea what the new ones (the ones with a light-up sheet of plastic on a stick) run, because I quit before they replaced the old ones we had at my store.

Today, I had my A/C go out, a piece of musical equipment that I had emotional attachment to fail on me, and I got a flat tire on the way home; this thumbnail popped up and I belly laughed, genuinely made up for the hell of a day I just went through. Thanks for that, man

RU-vid has been trying to get me to watch this video for a week, I finally caved, and I am now a subscriber. I like your particular brand of chaos good sir

6:16 THE HEADPHONE JACK NOISE, I CAN’T

SMI is a system management interrupt. A way to interface with the firmware (system management mode). SMIs are documented in the intel sdm and amd programmer manuals if you are curious.

I was not expecting the Sonic music but it was a VERY warm welcome!

dude i absolutely love your editing style. it's what i strive for on the rare occasion I make videos. I love your use of sound effects. Source sound effects are great and you do it so well but it's not overused. Your videos are so peak.

The "Why doesn't this come out, I want this to come out" bit fucking killed me. I know so many people like that

After a bit of painful digging, I found that Sonic #2104 still exists and is in a town called Gonzalez, Texas.

1:41 Just a note here, those "ethernet" ports labelled com are actually serial ports using an RJ jack instead of a bulky serial port. Some have custom pinouts, so fair warning.

The realization around that 12V out evoked a mischievous giggle from me

11:29 Crowdstrike back at it again

I mean, if it's just connecting to another computer somewhere in the building, you could possibly reverse engineer what it's looking for and host your own spoof Sonic server

3:50 so wholesome wtf 😭

First time on the channel and I know only slightly above the basics of computers so following along with everything felt educational *and* cursed, which is the best kind!

i absolutely love the journey of these videos, it's very fun watching you go into this with absolutely no knowledge if any of this will work, and all the workarounds you have to do just to get *something* going

Every Bringus youtuber reference just lets me know we have the same exact sense of humor.

your sound effects are so funny lol I usually don't go for this kind of dry humor but the effects take it over the top!

33:42 "second greatest technichian yo ever live" hits deep

should i stay up 16 hours just to watch this.... i think i must

Wow bro! First time watcher. Great stuff! LOL Your diagnostic skills are fantastic! This is also the first video I've seen that has required so much prior Windows knowldege and me me knowledge to follow. Kudos my man!

The amount of Sonic sound effects in this video is too damn right

14:23 That's the noise I make whenever I have to fix computer problems.

That PCBWay ad, was the only midroll ad ive ever enjoyed on youtube :)

if this guy sponsors pcbway one more time i will drink 2 gallons of liquid uranium

36:04 thank you for displaying my name

33:30 Wow, that Vegeta scream was so powerful it was also audible here.

Ahh! That "car detect" stuff you found in the config explains those exposed components under the screen! I've always wondered if they were just using the camera to give the Carhops a remote visual of the cx (which is still entirely plausible on its own), but that didn't ever explain to me what the other holes were for. They're using sonar to detect stall occupancy! That's *got* to be an amazing source of info.

THE GREATEST TECHNITIAN THAT'S EVER LIVED MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣‼‼🔥🔥

Everything about this video is utter chaos and I'm here for it!

i love watching this guy, its so fun (i barely have a clue of what hes doing but its so interesting)

Literally the only channel where i watch the part of the video that is the sponsored ad 😂

I appreciate the Sonic music and sound effects for the Sonic kiosk.

Thanks makes the day much better

Next video: "gaming on a micros oracle"