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Title: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: hoggy on Wed, 02 October 2013, 07:29:11
(http://i987.photobucket.com/albums/ae356/hoggyboard/SDC10220.jpg)
Here's one I picked up a while back.

POS keyboards tend to really well built, sometimes colourful, often filthy.  Best of all, they aren't exactly sought after on ebay, so bargains can be had...

Anyone else like to share?
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: Photoelectric on Wed, 02 October 2013, 08:31:32
The best part about that keyboard is the credit card swiping slot along the top :D  If only you could get it to work to pay for on-line goods while sitting at home at your computer  :thumb:
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Wed, 02 October 2013, 08:54:56
The best part about that keyboard is the credit card swiping slot along the top :D  If only you could get it to work to pay for on-line goods while sitting at home at your computer  :thumb:

anything is possible :P

i'm pretty sure someone posted they had theirs set up to login or something with a card swipe
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: MTManiac on Wed, 02 October 2013, 09:33:30
The best part about that keyboard is the credit card swiping slot along the top :D  If only you could get it to work to pay for on-line goods while sitting at home at your computer  :thumb:

anything is possible :P

i'm pretty sure someone posted they had theirs set up to login or something with a card swipe

that would be a great idea for a family machine, make the kids keep track of their computer key card or they can't play!
sorry, gotta clean your room and find your key card if you want to play on the computer! hahahaha

Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: bazemk1979 on Wed, 02 October 2013, 16:39:22
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(http://i987.photobucket.com/albums/ae356/hoggyboard/SDC10220.jpg)

Here's one I picked up a while back.

POS keyboards tend to really well built, sometimes colourful, often filthy.  Best of all, they aren't exactly sought after on ebay, so bargains can be had...

Anyone else like to share?
OP I hope you do know what POS stands for before you opened this thread?....

Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: Findecanor on Wed, 02 October 2013, 18:38:20
The best part about that keyboard is the credit card swiping slot along the top :D  If only you could get it to work to pay for on-line goods while sitting at home at your computer  :thumb:
The credit card's magnetic stripe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stripe#Financial_cards) stores the credit card number, expiration date and CVC number.

Once you have reverse-engineered the card reader, it would be easy to just make it emit the credit card number.
Making it fill in the different fields on the web form automatically would be a bit more difficult... :)

You could perhaps have an application in the background that detects card swipes and pops up a window with the fields; then allowing you to drag and drop the different numbers from that window to the relevant text fields.

OP I hope you do know what POS stands for before you opened this thread?....
I think he knows more than one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale) meaning of the acronym.
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: damorgue on Wed, 02 October 2013, 18:41:59
Once you have reverse-engineered the card reader, it would be easy to just make it emit the credit card number. Making it fill in the different fields automatically would be a bit more difficult... :)

Cherry G80-8200 does that as a standard feature. I used mine to enter passwords and log into things by swiping a card there for a while when I used that board.
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: bazemk1979 on Wed, 02 October 2013, 19:00:07

I think he knows more than one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale) meaning of the acronym.
Waiting on OP to answer....

Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: hoggy on Thu, 03 October 2013, 00:32:43
That one I didn't know... Not one I've heard over here.  Live and learn, I suppose.
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: do_Og@n on Thu, 03 October 2013, 00:36:39
That particular POS board I've never seen. That one I do like but the main thing I like a lot about them is the fact that some of have MX Clears.

I've rounded up over 300 MX Clears thanks to POS keyboards.
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: Pacifist on Thu, 30 January 2014, 17:25:04
Does anybody know if this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/350631758793?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

POS board by cherry can reverse use credit cards?

Once you have reverse-engineered the card reader, it would be easy to just make it emit the credit card number. Making it fill in the different fields automatically would be a bit more difficult... :)

Cherry G80-8200 does that as a standard feature. I used mine to enter passwords and log into things by swiping a card there for a while when I used that board.

Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: damorgue on Thu, 30 January 2014, 23:27:41
Once you have reverse-engineered the card reader, it would be easy to just make it emit the credit card number. Making it fill in the different fields automatically would be a bit more difficult... :)
Cherry G80-8200 does that as a standard feature. I used mine to enter passwords and log into things by swiping a card there for a while when I used that board.
Does anybody know if this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/350631758793?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

POS board by cherry can reverse use credit cards?

I could check. I used it to read some other cards I had for passowrds and such. Modern credit cards rely more on the chips than the magnetic stripe though, at least in EU. The magnetic stripe should output something, at the very least a string of a certain length.
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: PRISONER 24601 on Wed, 05 February 2014, 03:21:20
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Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: hoggy on Fri, 07 February 2014, 14:17:09
Is that the spos that I think it is?
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: PRISONER 24601 on Fri, 07 February 2014, 14:25:13
the very same! Still the gem of my collection.
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 07 February 2014, 14:29:56
Nice. The G80-62410EUADSA is one of the few left that is still on my G80 want list.
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: damorgue on Sat, 08 February 2014, 01:49:01
Nice. The G80-62410EUADSA is one of the few left that is still on my G80 want list.

Not the same but something similar. (http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHERRY-G86-61410EUAEAA-SPOS-USB-Keyboard/230596026179?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D261%26meid%3D4685782216682305011%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D1088%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D321317999657%26)
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 08 February 2014, 08:55:39
Yes sure finding the G86 rubberdomes version is no problem... but who wants it?
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: Dubsgalore on Sat, 08 February 2014, 09:03:31
the funkymeeba loves POS boards :)
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: damorgue on Sat, 08 February 2014, 09:13:16
Yes sure finding the G86 rubberdomes version is no problem... but who wants it?

Lol, I stumbled upon it while this thread was up on the other screen. I linked it without even reading the title, sorry.
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: PhineasRex on Sat, 08 February 2014, 10:33:01
I've wanted to pick up a Tipro for quite some time but they are hard to come by.
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: damorgue on Sat, 08 February 2014, 10:39:34
I've wanted to pick up a Tipro for quite some time but they are hard to come by.

Which kind?
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: PhineasRex on Sat, 08 February 2014, 22:01:30
I've wanted to pick up a Tipro for quite some time but they are hard to come by.

Which kind?
I'm trying to find one of the 8x16 matrix boards, I forget what the model number is.
Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: ricercar on Mon, 10 February 2014, 19:15:05
8x16 with cherry browns?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271187468861

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Title: Re: Any love for Point of Sale keyboards?
Post by: Pacifist on Mon, 10 February 2014, 19:16:13
8x16 with cherry browns?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271187468861

That price tag