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Free OpenServer appeared in 1996. The cash registers were running on the x86 platform, for sure (68000 was a dead architecture for general purpose computing by then - Apple had been on POWER for several years).

https://www.eetimes.com/sco-provides-free-unix-system-licens...

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I'm talking more like the late 80s when I was giving my address info to clerks at Rat Shack who were typing it into some kind of green-screen app on what, if memory serves, kinda looked like a Wyse terminal.

That could very well have been a Model 16 running Xenix 68k.

From memory, the two serial ports could run classic getty processes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_II#model16

Yep-- that's what I was getting at. I'd love it if somebody w/ real Tandy corporate experience appeared in this thread and discussed it... >smile<

Here's hoping for the power of Hacker News.

Agreed, that would make the conversation quite lively.

Unfortunately, anyone who managed or worked on a curses app that relayed store sales data to a corporate database would need an exceptional memory in their retirement.

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