{"id":13057,"date":"2025-01-09T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13057"},"modified":"2025-01-21T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:30:31","slug":"doughnut-shop-in-indiana-is-still-using-commodore-64s-as-their-cash-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13057","title":{"rendered":"Doughnut shop in Indiana is still using Commodore 64&#8217;s as their cash register"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg, IN is a respectable local donut shop. What sets it apart, however, is the fact they are still using Commodore 64&#8217;s for their cash registers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RetroVidGaming\/status\/1868587811517219090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">series of photos on X<\/a>\u00a0attracted a lot of attention this week, as it showed staff at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-7706533-15534252?sid=pcg-us-1245323059863047138&amp;url=https:\/\/www.tripadvisor.co.uk\/Restaurant_Review-g36966-d853502-Reviews-Hilligoss_Bakery-Brownsburg_Indiana.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hilligoss Bakery<\/a>\u00a0apparently processing orders on a Commodore 64-based register system. Commenters pointed out that the last publicly posted picture of the register was taken in 2021, so\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/desktops\/indiana-bakery-still-using-commodore-64s-originally-released-in-1982-as-point-of-sale-terminals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tom&#8217;s Hardware<\/a>\u00a0decided to give them a call\u2014and staff duly verified that the systems were still in use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" data-attachment-id=\"13058\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=13058\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/01\/Ge6Oa0eWAAACC52.jpg?fit=384%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"384,512\" 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What sets it apart, however, is the fact they are still using Commodore 64&#8217;s for their cash registers. A recent\u00a0series of photos on X\u00a0attracted a lot of attention this week, as it showed staff at the\u00a0Hilligoss Bakery\u00a0apparently processing orders on a Commodore 64-based register system. Commenters pointed out that the last publicly posted picture of the register was taken in 2021, so\u00a0Tom&#8217;s Hardware\u00a0decided to give them a call\u2014and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13057\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3oB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13320,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057\/revisions\/13320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}