What is this POS??? The Par EverServ M7700!! 

Some other folks may have already said some of the stuff I'm going to say, so I'm sorry if it's repetitive. The name for this type of system is a terminal. Even though they aren't terminals in the traditional computing sense, they've kept that name since first generation point of sale did use actual terminals. Also, very commonly in legacy POS, the terminals don't work or don't work correctly without a back office server. The touch screen is a pretty standard screen for POS, and the calibration utility is made by 3M for ELO. That blue LED device is the UareU fingerprint reader. There should be a test utility on the terminal, and it shows you your own fingerprint, it's neat! The MSR (MagStripe Reader) is used mostly for authentication these days, but it used to be possible to accept credit cards using it. Since the start of the EMV (chip card) transition in 2016, the use of MSRs has been phased out in favor of external, encrypted pinpads. The first two RJ45 serial connections are just RS232 electrically, they're just in the RJ45 formfactor because it's more compact. Other models of POS terminal use RJ12 ports for the same reason. The next two RJ45 serial ports are powered. The data lines will confirm to RS232 spec, but some of the normally unused pins, or pins normally used for ground are energized. These traditionally were used for some barcode scanners or printers that needed more power than the bus can provide. Do be careful, though, the serial ports are dumb! If you plug something into them and power is enabled, it will indiscriminately push voltage into it and burn it out if it's not designed for it, or you plug the device into the port providing the wrong voltage. Voltage controls are usually done in BIOS, and are often off by default to prevent sadness, but do be sure before plugging anything into them. The DVI connector is used for a more advanced customer facing display. The one you have is called a line display, and is just a serial device at its heart that can display up to two lines of data. Be careful with this DVI port, it may provide voltage for special single-cable displays that would fry a normal display. It may also carry USB data on normally unused pins for a touch screen. I don't know that this terminal has those features, but just be wary before plugging your favorite monitor into it. The red and green PoweredUSB ports are most commonly used on POS devices and in industrial machines. In POS, it's used most commonly for barcode scanners, biometrics, credit card pinpads, and printers. But I have also seen customer facing displays use the port to get power and touch screen data signals, but these are often proprietary. The cash drawer ports are special, and can sometimes drive two drawers per port. They're effectively connected to switched circuits on the inside, and their entire purpose is to provide 12 or 24 volts DC to the pins for a moment to cause the latch in the drawer to open. It's insanely simple. The breakout near the bottom of the I/O panel is likely used for a CF card port. Many POS terminals don't require much, and use CF cards to boot into a basic OS that communicates with the back office server. Micros POS calls them "personality cards". The reason that particular terminal has (or should have if it doesn't) RAID1 is because Subway uses their FOH (Front of House) terminals as back office computers as well. This is also why it has Windows 7 pro instead of embedded, which is normal for terminals like that. Hopefully some of that info was helpful. 😄

This was the first POS that I supported. It launched a group of several great paying gig jobs. PAR Tech was a DOD contractor but the owner had friends who owned McDonald's restaurants. They were still using calculator type registers with pictures of food on them. PAR was able to set them up with an amazing POS. Other McD owners wanted them too. So PAR was manufacturing and supporting McDs for some time. By the time I got there McD kicked PAR to the curb and I was supporting Subway. Later I was supporting Quiznos in downtown Denver. That job lasted exactly 30 days and Quiznos went bankrupt. PAR Tech support was in North Boulder CO.

That machine plays UT2004 surprisingly well considering it is using the Intel integrated graphics. In my mind I am visualizing a bunch of subway employees loading it up on the PoS systems and playing deathmatches against each other after closing hours or during the day if they're bored and there aren't any customers ;-)

Powershell can export the drivers, use this command - Export-WindowsDriver -Online -Destination d:\drivers and it should dump all the drivers to a folder, with subfolders for each driver.

FYI, make sure to always read manuals on POS systems before plugging in accessories/monitors. I’ve seen power sent on unexpected places. One was 24volts on random VGA pins that are usually connected to ground.

I worked at a subway in 2011 and they had a older version of one of these machines and I always wanted to put command and conquer or UT on a usb stick and see if I could get it to run on the system as we had access to the desktop it was running windows xp.

I worked at Subway both before and after college and remember using this type of system in my latter tenure. I remember using fingerprint readers to login with my employee user ID. My prior time at Subway we were using some model of Dell Optiplex that my boss actually commissioned me to upgrade (across several of his stores) to speed up the GUI. I still have the graphics cards I pulled in my collection today (3 x ATi Rage 128 Pro, low profile).

That weird card reader on the side is also a fingerprint scanner, I think. Since you're in Canada too, you'll be interested to know that Dollarama recently switched to using them for their self checkout machines, so cashiers can do a sort of 2FA with their pin as well (presumably for security)

Another great video from TRR! Great content, thanks for sharing!!

I just wanted to say that the terminal has pretty impressive specs to be able to play Unreal Tournament as seamlessly as it did.. graphics looked great, that is a little monster hidden behind a POS touchscreen! Nice find.

POSReady2009 is a lightweight flavor of Windows XP. I installed it into an HP Thin Client I used to have and enjoyed it! This machine in general is something unique for sure! I about predicted that Win7 was on here but I thought it was 64-bit. Also whoever had it had good taste if they used the classic theme haha😉👌

hi pal fantastic vid as always and its good 2 see you back

26:59 That "the way it's meant to be played" motto is so much (humorously) on point here! 😆

Don't let the store management catch you playing video games on it, lol! 🤣Seriously though, awesome job saving this fine piece of equipment. A lot of companies went with Linux for their POS. When I worked at Lowe's, they had an variant of openSUSE and even used CentOS at one point. From what I have heard from management, Linux seemed to be more reliable than Windows.

It's good you clarify the different interpretations of P.O.S. Anyone not familiar with Point Of Sale is gonna assume the less appropriate abbreviation, heh. I do enjoy a delicious Subway sandwich, we have them in Australia!

AIO style PCs even POS ones like you shown in the video have always intrigued me with how they crammed all the hardware behind the display and the cooling required for that. I'll probably be looking out for some form of an AIO PC in the future for use as something like a jukebox. Having a touch screen would probably work nicely for my intended purpose. Though failing that a laptop is always an option.

I have a newer POS that I put a SSD in and running Windows 10 and the touchscreen actually works

From the calibration software it looks like micro touch from 3m you can still download from their website its a dominant touch screen technology still even the serial version is used in about 60 percent of slot machines.

Nice overview! It's always nice seeing this kind of hardware outside of its natural habitat. And running FPSs for no particular reason. Some receipt printers will take the "CD" cable as an input as well, so it seems most likely to me that the CD1 and CD2 ports are intended more for receipt printer + cash drawer. I'm hardly an expert on the subject, but I believe there usually isn't much communication actually going on between the POS and the cash drawer (at least not enough to require a second connector); I believe it's pretty much just a 12V impulse down one of the wires to open the latching mechanism. Which isn't particularly secure, but since you could just pick the lock or force it open easily enough, I feel like cash drawers are really more about slowing down a would-be thief than actually stopping them forever.

I really like industrial computers. I have a such a computer built into a 23" touch display, but pretty lacking hardware. It has a 1.6ghz Atom and max 2gb ram.

I remember at work we manage to get one that run windows 2000 to play games on it. I think these could make great to play classic games like doom or could possibly be a great lan party system

Yeah, I first thought "piece of S***T" at first glance too 🙂

calibration is not specific to PAR, I believe ELO was probably the first company to use that calibration software ( I think it was designed by 3M) press and hold on the corner/center. ELO been doing that for years

I have several POS units that are fun as "retro machines." They aren't as new as this one, and I am surprised this one did not come with windows 7 embedded, or newer. Yes, you can use Linux on them, although I would recommend Linux embedded or freertos if you want to take full advantage of the hardware. Otherwise, most any ol' OS will do. The 24 volt (orange) USB is usually used for printers. However, while I do have a few printers that came with them, I had a hard time finding any other peripherals that used either the 12, or 24 volt USB's

Oh my. Playing UT2004 on a POS is a feeling I am familiar with. And unfortunately, my POS didn't have a wad of cash in it to help me upgrade to something better.

Throw a couple of SATA SSDs and some more RAM and you got yourself an interesting little unit. Could make a decent retro system.

Speaking of date coincidents, my laptop is built on 26th of January 2013 and the Hp Laserjet is built on the same day in 2001.

The 12V power out is possibly for a receipt printer, or maybe speakers. I also find it interesting that there are not 1, but 2 cash drawer ports (CD1 and CD2).

lol to play games on a P.O.S. :D love it Wonder what if anything you'll end up being able to do with this

I'm jealous!

The Core i5-2390T is a dual core CPU with Hyper-threading.

LOL POS?? lol I get it Great vid!!

One of those things that are absolutely worthless but you have to experience because it's not common for the everyday person to get their hands on, like a reciept printer or ATM

Soooooo, you was born in 2016? LOL! Strange to see a special port for a cash drawer, because is could be combined with USB or serial. A cash drawer only needs one signal: OPEN. Some cash printers (the Epson TM series e.g.) even have a cash drawer connection, so that after printing the receipt, a signal for opening the cash drawer can be given. But, when not having a printer, a separate connector is usefull. You mentioned that hand scanners cpuld be connected to the 12V or even 24V connectors. Even in 2016 there were handscanners on USB. (old ones used serial).

is it possible to upgrade the components inside?

Nice! :)

I wonder what the original cost of it was. Doing a quick look on Google indicates besides the actual cost of buying or renting the equipment you often have to pay a license fee for the software you're going to use, and for it to be installed at your business.

There is a software to extract all 3d party drivers so you can use them after a reinstall, but I can't recall it's name.

Wasn’t the card reader on the side for the cards from the employees for the cash register?

Try Macriun Reflect to capture drive images and port to USB flash or Hard Drive.

You are going to get Doom running on it that is the only thing that matters anymore lol.

The CD1 and CD2 ports are most likely serial over RJ sockets

Now this one is game powerful performance by 4 quad i5, that is big amount for play game and streaming! Why don't you cloning HDD into SSD from AcePOS, HDD is too slow not good. SSD is needed a fast as Game load and boot by windows, even so can install by windows 10. Cause that PC is 64-BIT so then you upgrade windows 11 for unsupported hardware! 😁 This is explained i think okey, i don't want requests for this! 👍🏻😁

Found a similar unit and turned it into a mp3 jukebox .

nice spec pc looks much older

pretty sure this POS could run anything more modern with a proper egpu going out from the wifi card

so it runs way better than most pcs at the time? if it can run unreal, it can run duke 3d, blood, doom, doom 3, halo ce, age of mytholgoy, starcraft, age of empires, quake.

MSATA WiFi possible?

Try instal windows 11 or windows 8.1 on this pos PC

Hey that's my birthday also.

Having worked in a store and being observant in others :). The magnetic card reader on the side is used for employee badged to logon, or to authenticate on self service kiosks. Barcode scanners show up as a keyboard and "type in" the barcode. Sometimes with an enter key at the end. Though that can be programmed. Serial interfaces are common for interfacing with LCD line display's, payment terminal's and even with receipt printers. USB is now getting used for that. Wouldn't surprise me if it shows up as a USB serial adapter. Looks like the touchscreen is a serial device as well. Judging by the name. Try setting it to show devices by connection. I wouldn't be surprised if one of these remains in the back office to function as the local "server" for the one's in the store. 2 disks in mirroring would be useful for that. Windows embedded for POS is something that exists for well... POS systems. Something I more or less expected to be installed on this instead of full install Windows 7 installation.

we share a birthday!

Every POS I've used was a legit POS💩 I guess they don't care about the user experience when they know the company needs to buy it anyways.

POS 😂 hilarious, but not what ppl think

it could have been a POS POS 😀

all your vid's are extra (for 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 times) . keep up the good work :)