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Checkout Scanner Configuration

One of the price scanners at Stop & Shop was already lit up when I arrived:

Price Scanner - Baud Rate Selection
Price Scanner – Baud Rate Selection

Let’s take a closer look:

Price Scanner - Baud Rate Selection - detail
Price Scanner – Baud Rate Selection – detail

Can it be that S&S, having outsourced the scanning & bagging operations to its customers, now expects sysadmin skills?

Given our previous experience, I didn’t even think of fiddling with it…

And, yes, I know that “baud rate” is an oxymoron.

Comments

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  1. Red County Pete Avatar
    Red County Pete

    As I recall, I went from 1200 Baud to “56”K over 5 years, so the baud rate would be about 10 to 11Kbaud/year. [grin]

    (It went negative up here–I get 46K on a very good day, 28K on a bad one. One of these months, I’ll get a satellite link.)