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Grocery Store Self-Checkout Printer Boot Message

Apparently we were the first people through a self-checkout lane one morning, because a present emerged before our receipt:

Grocery NCR K5xx printer - boot report
Grocery NCR K5xx printer – boot report

I don’t know whether a K5xx printer runs a descendant of PC-DOS or NCR’s firmware just uses the DOS code page numbers, but it’s been a long time since I had to know any of them.

As Sun Tzu said, “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”

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