Heya Bringus! I'm a POS technician and work on these workstation 6 units EVERY SINGLE DAY. Seeing you rip one apart and force it to do things it was never meant to do is like my personal catharsis. Thank you for this.
i did my time as a POS tech too, the amount of hoops, custom software, off brand chinesium, bodge wires, that people take for granted that will work , i wouldn't want to do that again, lol
I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like for the Eye Opener team to see the God forsaken mods a lot of us did to those back in its day.If by some cruel joke you hadn't seen it, it was an all in one piece internet dial up experience on a tiny TFT? display.
Hey Bringus, I work with these POSes every day. Looking at the back of the unit, the USB 5 (12v) is usually reserved for Scanner peripherals, since they draw more power. CD1-2 are cash drawer ports. Customer Display is that little pole thing that shows you the total, that has a monochrome LCD, which is why it doesn't really need a digital port. COM ports are usually reserved for extra peripherals, and do not act like LAN ports, usually. They're relatively powerful machines, and there are some 12th gen intel ones. Though, if anyone has questions about this, I'll try to answer them as much as possible.
@@pylesvideosGod created us in his own image but we sinned and broke that image so now we deserve hell but God wanted a way of forgiveness so he took on the form of man suffered on the cross for the forgiveness of sins that whoever repents of his sins and puts his faith in jesus christ can be saved to get that forgiveness u have to repent of ur sins put ur faith in jesus christ follow him and rely on his finished work on the cross and not ur own works to be saved repentence first means realising ur a sinner who needs Gods help then u change ur mind about sin realising its disgusting before God and u let him help u to stop doing sin putting ur faith in jesus means u do his commandments which u can know about in the bible loving jesus means to do his commandments but u have to be careful first of all u dont know when ur gonna die so come to God and repent today and that jesus is the only way to heaven the only truth and the only life and we can go to heaven bc of what he did on the cross not bc of our own works so ur good works dont get u to heaven its only bc if what jesus did on the cross but that doesnt mean u live a life of sin no u live a life pleasing to God having a true relationship with him but u trust in what jesus did on the cross and not ur own works that can get u to heaven jesus loves u and he can give u eternal life repent today
As a former Sonic Employee, I love that you went the extra mile to grab a Micros Oracle, because that's what the employees are looking at while you're telling them your order. The card reader on it is used for scanning employee id cards.
I love how in every video like this he starts with a very clean and nice device/computer and then finishes the video with basically a dead corpse disassembled on the table with bringus performing some insane necromancy on it
Because he does not know most of the technologies. He just randomly tries things without any deeper understanding of the technology. Randomly changing bios settings and then see "what it does", failures with boot (why he did not just check the UEFI configuration directly on the EFI partition?), not even knowing what SMI's are? I think one video from this "hacker" was enough for me :D He is just script kiddie, an amateur kid :D
@@gryffuscze i'm pretty sure he's not branding himself as a hacker, just a stupid guy with stupid dreams that he is gonna achieve, one way or another his videos are basically just "what if i do a stupid thing on an exotic machine", i don't see why you are raging so much.
@@jessy1982 I don't make videos, sorry (and I am for sure not interested in making any videos anywhere). But I can teach you something about FS signatures in binary and for sure UEFI and BIOS boot process if you are interested.
This is the most distinct sound effects per minute of video watched ive ever seen in my life. the mcdonalds beep, stone obelisk asmr, and gmod noises are tickling me pink.
So... 10 years ago I was wandering my local neighborhood, and noticed a large pile of electronics sitting outside my local Sonic. Pulling up, I looked it over, and thought "Hm, why is this e-waste just sitting here? Are they just gonna throw it away? Maybe I could ask the manager if I could have it?" So I walked up to the kiosk, pushed that brand new, shiny, red button, and asked if I could talk to a manager. Some 20 something kid wanders out and says he's the assistant manager, cause the regular manager was gone for the day. I point to the pile of e-waste and ask what the plan is. He says something along the lines of "I have no idea, but if you can make it go away, please do." Well, I have a minivan and too much time, so I agree, and make the pile vanish... into my garage. This wasn't stall screens, but the actual server hardware that ran on-site, along with kitchen screens and button pads, among other things. The real guts of the operation. The 10.21.4.1 the stall spoke to. And a year later I sold the server along with most of the components for about $500. Never managed to image the SAS drives, never collected any data on how it worked. Only thing I have left are the old Serial cards the server used, since they were kinda cool and worked with something else I was toying with. I had the final keys in my hands years ago, and let them slip right through. I have failed the world. PS: I went to another sonic to see if I could get more e-waste, since they all were replacing their hardware, and it turns out that kid was *not* supposed to give that to me. I had no idea at the time, but he probably got fired over that... ooops.
I mean... We should have seen their scrap hardware crisis coming. They're not a tiny guerilla startup in a no-name town, they're a regimented conglomerate fortress. Company e-waste laying around instead of going through due processes and boatloads of paperwork? I'm surprised they didn't fire 50 middle managers other than that poor lad.
I have experience with maintaining POS systems like this for retail/restaurant businesses (although not for Sonic): CD1 & CD2 refer to Cash Drawer 1 & Cash Drawer 2. These and the 12V Out would all be sent to a splitter / Y-cable that would provide both power and trigger signal to the cash drawer(s). The COM ports were typically reserved for thermal printers for printing receipts or for sending order tickets to the printers in the kitchen. Normal USB ports were typically used for barcode scanners for coupons among other random peripherals like base stations for wireless pagers. We didn't use the USB5 port but the "Customer Display" port was connected to an auxiliary front-facing display so the customer would see their order and total as the items were being entered on the main display.
To be honest - im pretty sure those all ports is just installed because it was a junk anyways. They could just throw all USB's, but no. We gonna slap random bullsh1t so technicians will break their neck by trying to understand how to configure hardware. But to be fair - if you already have some expirience with f̶u̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ maintaining those machines that isn't a problem.
@@unamelable256 To be honest there was so much POS stuff around long before USB existed at all thats why they still use so many ports. POS industry doesn't really change. Decades before USB came along we had power out of RS232 com ports hence the 5/9/12v option there it's used to power devices like barcode scanners in the same way USB used to. Epos was well ahead of its time in many ways like that even back in the 80's.
@@unamelable256 the reason the Cash draws had a different port is a mix of backwards compatibility, but also they have got to thwak a massive solenoid to push it open(needs a lot of current at medium voltages above 10v below 100v) and using RJ45 for serial is pretty common
@@unamelable256God created us in his own image but we sinned and broke that image so now we deserve hell but God wanted a way of forgiveness so he took on the form of man suffered on the cross for the forgiveness of sins that whoever repents of his sins and puts his faith in jesus christ can be saved to get that forgiveness u have to repent of ur sins put ur faith in jesus christ follow him and rely on his finished work on the cross and not ur own works to be saved repentence first means realising ur a sinner who needs Gods help then u change ur mind about sin realising its disgusting before God and u let him help u to stop doing sin putting ur faith in jesus means u do his commandments which u can know about in the bible loving jesus means to do his commandments but u have to be careful first of all u dont know when ur gonna die so come to God and repent today and that jesus is the only way to heaven the only truth and the only life and we can go to heaven bc of what he did on the cross not bc of our own works so ur good works dont get u to heaven its only bc if what jesus did on the cross but that doesnt mean u live a life of sin no u live a life pleasing to God having a true relationship with him but u trust in what jesus did on the cross and not ur own works that can get u to heaven jesus loves u and he can give u eternal life repent today
@@doradubsGod created us in his own image but we sinned and broke that image so now we deserve hell but God wanted a way of forgiveness so he took on the form of man suffered on the cross for the forgiveness of sins that whoever repents of his sins and puts his faith in jesus christ can be saved to get that forgiveness u have to repent of ur sins put ur faith in jesus christ follow him and rely on his finished work on the cross and not ur own works to be saved repentence first means realising ur a sinner who needs Gods help then u change ur mind about sin realising its disgusting before God and u let him help u to stop doing sin putting ur faith in jesus means u do his commandments which u can know about in the bible loving jesus means to do his commandments but u have to be careful first of all u dont know when ur gonna die so come to God and repent today and that jesus is the only way to heaven the only truth and the only life and we can go to heaven bc of what he did on the cross not bc of our own works so ur good works dont get u to heaven its only bc if what jesus did on the cross but that doesnt mean u live a life of sin no u live a life pleasing to God having a true relationship with him but u trust in what jesus did on the cross and not ur own works that can get u to heaven jesus loves u and he can give u eternal life repent today
As an IT professional who started her journey as the store stock repair tech at Micro Center…who now works at an org where most of my decisions have already been made for me…the unbridled joy I feel watching you cobble together this beautiful monster cannot be overstated. ❤
"We can just take the install.wim file from inside of a Windows 7 installer and move it over to the 'sources' folder on a Windows **8** installer [and later a Windows 10 installer]!" Bringus, I thought you were mad when you built the cs_office computer tower and ran games on it, but this is an entirely new level of cursed, janky wizardry. I salute you, sir.
@@myrealusername2193 Windows Setup tends to just... _not_ care if the install.wim file is different, even with the newer versions of it (except for XP and everything before it, since they don't have wim files) so this is probably why it's possible. Still wizardry though.
The reason the MicrOS Oracle had so many external connectors on the internals, you've gotta think about application. These were devices handled all day 24/7 and were liable to break. Plug and play replacement parts made things a lot easier for the Techs replacing it
I used to be IT for restaurants and clubs in Vegas. It’s fun seeing someone discover these POS terminals for the first time. They are very interesting machines. Thanks for the entertainment!😊
I genuinely laughed out loud at "What a POS" and I hold you responsible for getting my niece riled up, sir. That pun was so bad that I'm mad I didn't make it first.
The internal/external connections for speakers and rj45 for card reader is so technicians that travel to support these things out in the field can easily swap failing hardware
I was off doing something and not looking at the screen, and I thought, “wait, that’s a DougScore” 😂 I never thought there would be overlap like that, seeing as I only found this video here in my recommendations
@@casultaser Sonic Gold and Silver version was so big that they couldn't fit the whole thing on a single cartridge. They had to get Iwata to help them out, and he compressed it so well that they were able to fit the entirety of Sonic 1 on the cart, too!
I didn't do work for Micros machines. But when I was at NCR we had VERY similar machines. Those ethernet ports that are labeled com and those CD ports are for receipt printers, debit readers, barcode scanners, and cash drawers. That is why they supply voltage. I had a 7702 that was given to me as trash, I was able to get it back up and running. Eventually mounted it on my wall for a while, then gave it to a friend as I really was not using it. Cool stuff, not nearly as underpowered as people would think.
God created us in his own image but we sinned and broke that image so now we deserve hell but God wanted a way of forgiveness so he took on the form of man suffered on the cross for the forgiveness of sins that whoever repents of his sins and puts his faith in jesus christ can be saved to get that forgiveness u have to repent of ur sins put ur faith in jesus christ follow him and rely on his finished work on the cross and not ur own works to be saved repentence first means realising ur a sinner who needs Gods help then u change ur mind about sin realising its disgusting before God and u let him help u to stop doing sin putting ur faith in jesus means u do his commandments which u can know about in the bible loving jesus means to do his commandments but u have to be careful first of all u dont know when ur gonna die so come to God and repent today and that jesus is the only way to heaven the only truth and the only life and we can go to heaven bc of what he did on the cross not bc of our own works so ur good works dont get u to heaven its only bc if what jesus did on the cross but that doesnt mean u live a life of sin no u live a life pleasing to God having a true relationship with him but u trust in what jesus did on the cross and not ur own works that can get u to heaven jesus loves u and he can give u eternal life repent today@@sara8913
Pretty sure that's gonna be a waste of time. I'd be shocked if they got their internal management network actually exposed to the public. Or as a starter, just get a simple laptop there, and test the IP addresses that were needed in the panel and see if they return anything.
The problem is that most restaurants (the one I work at included) use a hidden network or physical wired network to communicate with the internal servers. And even if you could get on the hidden network, there usually are also device ID checks or similar to make sure no unwanted / expired devices are still in use.
I am quite honestly disappointed that UA-cam didn't recommend me your channel earlier. You have achieved the perfect combination of technicality & entertainment for us humorous nerds to the point where I'm both learning and giggling. I salute you, and subscribe (obviously)
I used to work with Micros systems, InfoGenesys, Comtrex, and others, interesting video. For those who aren't aware: COM1 and 2 are Serial Ports and can also be enabled to send voltage to certain things, like a Customer VFD Display, Cash Drawer, etc. COM 5 is just standard Serial Port w/o voltage sending. The CD 1 and 2 are for Cash Drawer's 1 and 2 and I think the PS/2 looking Customer Display also is a serial connection with a different connector. Also that IP Address it's trying to talk to, is definitely a LAN one. Great find none the less, great video!
This video brought back strong memories I have from when I used to get paid to fight with GameStop's LS Retail POS system that they were trying out. It was fed off a Navision back-end and ran on HP computers with touch screens from who-gives-a-damn. I had to leap through so many hoops to streamline the PXE-based imaging process, all while scratching my head over the mysterious quirks of the hardware we'd been given.
20:54 A well-regulated Windows 7 installer, being necessary to the security of a Windows, the right of the Bringus to keep and bear Command Prompt, shall not be infringed.
@@indask8wait but it still used the DC 12 out to input its power regardless. The pcie could still potentially just be a really modified pcie port, you even see that on the right side it’s connected to some sort of chipset potentially related to data
UA-cam has been trying to get me to watch this video for a week, I finally caved, and I am now a subscriber. I like your particular brand of chaos good sir
dude i absolutely love your editing style. it's what i strive for on the rare occasion I make videos. I love your use of sound effects. Source sound effects are great and you do it so well but it's not overused. Your videos are so peak.
I work in restaurant tech deployment (Xenial, Aloha, Oracle) and this is actually super cool to see. lol The software will literally run on anything. Me and my work buddies have considered trying to run some of them on a raspberry pi.
Man, I have abandoned IT for nearly a decade. I should get back into it. This looks like fun. You literally are doing what I enjoyed. Figuring things out. I would spend hours trying to get something to run or boot only to then spend 5 minutes on it and move on. 😂 This is my first video. But I had to subscribe. And you're pretty funny too! Thanks for the video! Gonna binge some more tonight.
SMI is a system management interrupt. A way to interface with the firmware (system management mode). SMIs are documented in the intel sdm and amd programmer manuals if you are curious.
2:50 that’s a sticker for Windows POSReady, which was a version of Embedded designed specifically for point of sale machines. POSReady 7 is based on Windows 7 and was deprecated one year after 7 was. It had a unique startup screen, too. Presumably, because of which Microsoft logo is on that license sticker , that originally ran POSReady 8 based on Windows 8. Not actually 100% sure on that one though. The previous generation of Walmart’s self-checkout terminals (the ones with the number on a light-up box on a stick) ran POSReady 7. No idea what the new ones (the ones with a light-up sheet of plastic on a stick) run, because I quit before they replaced the old ones we had at my store.
Today, I had my A/C go out, a piece of musical equipment that I had emotional attachment to fail on me, and I got a flat tire on the way home; this thumbnail popped up and I belly laughed, genuinely made up for the hell of a day I just went through. Thanks for that, man
This was a pretty amusing video watching you make this work while I am sitting here knowing how it works. I used to provide support for the Sonic Drive In pos systems, including the stalls, for over 8 years.
1:41 Just a note here, those "ethernet" ports labelled com are actually serial ports using an RJ jack instead of a bulky serial port. Some have custom pinouts, so fair warning.
i absolutely love the journey of these videos, it's very fun watching you go into this with absolutely no knowledge if any of this will work, and all the workarounds you have to do just to get *something* going
I mean, if it's just connecting to another computer somewhere in the building, you could possibly reverse engineer what it's looking for and host your own spoof Sonic server
hey dude just found your channel and its just the right kind of unique weird interesting projects that i dont see anyone else doing so i love it. well done and keep up the good work.
The use of Sonic the Hedgehog music throughout the video, just for 24:40 to be a cue for Wii Sports Resort music, hurt my soul in an intangible way. Good job!
Windows 7 not preinstalling drivers is a classic Windows move that we've been conditioned out of. Like a dog versus a wolf, we were slowly acclimated to getting all our nice drivers in one place. Back in the day, our kind had to fight to get anything to work, uphill, both ways -
Back in my day we had to hit F6 to load RAID drivers from a freaking floppy. In my closet I have my old "server" with a 3ware 7500-8 and eight 250GB IDE drives. Should spin it up for old time's sake...
Ahh! That "car detect" stuff you found in the config explains those exposed components under the screen! I've always wondered if they were just using the camera to give the Carhops a remote visual of the cx (which is still entirely plausible on its own), but that didn't ever explain to me what the other holes were for. They're using sonar to detect stall occupancy! That's *got* to be an amazing source of info.
@@KG5PHD It could be for only stats collection. Knowing when each stall is occupied, and for how long could be a very useful source of data. Basically automates away the collection of data to answer questions like how busy the store is, and at what times, which stalls are used the most, how long do people look at the menu before pressing the button, what percentage of people stay and eat vs take their food to go, that sort of thing.
Great video I really enjoyed watching this and would love to see a part 2. The employee side is a slightly modified version of micros RES, could likely be recreated using files available on the internet, the res server was that 10x ip address it was complaining about not being able to contact (source: I worked at an undisclosed company dealing with Sonics crap before) you'd need the workstation files (on Internet) and server files (also on Internet) you'd likely have to do some digging to get the stall screen to interface with the server as res is a royal pain to deal with
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Hey Bringus, Here Is A Good Name For The Operating System, SonicOS.
i wonder if sonic has copyright over the stuff in their own secluded os, or if theyre just completely chill with this
hiren's boot cd still going hard in 2024
Sonic lawsuit is inbound
Heya Bringus! I'm a POS technician and work on these workstation 6 units EVERY SINGLE DAY. Seeing you rip one apart and force it to do things it was never meant to do is like my personal catharsis. Thank you for this.
i did my time as a POS tech too, the amount of hoops, custom software, off brand chinesium, bodge wires, that people take for granted that will work , i wouldn't want to do that again, lol
1:38 magic it's both 5 volt and 12
Sometimes I wish I had unrestricted access to the proprietary POS software at my work. I could learn so much 🥺👉👈
I am also a POS
I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like for the Eye Opener team to see the God forsaken mods a lot of us did to those back in its day.If by some cruel joke you hadn't seen it, it was an all in one piece internet dial up experience on a tiny TFT? display.
their system crashing right as you're about to leave is just the cheese sauce on the pretzel.
lol
Hey Bringus, I work with these POSes every day. Looking at the back of the unit, the USB 5 (12v) is usually reserved for Scanner peripherals, since they draw more power. CD1-2 are cash drawer ports. Customer Display is that little pole thing that shows you the total, that has a monochrome LCD, which is why it doesn't really need a digital port. COM ports are usually reserved for extra peripherals, and do not act like LAN ports, usually.
They're relatively powerful machines, and there are some 12th gen intel ones. Though, if anyone has questions about this, I'll try to answer them as much as possible.
@@pylesvideosGod created us in his own image but we sinned and broke that image so now we deserve hell but God wanted a way of forgiveness so he took on the form of man suffered on the cross for the forgiveness of sins that whoever repents of his sins and puts his faith in jesus christ can be saved to get that forgiveness u have to repent of ur sins put ur faith in jesus christ follow him and rely on his finished work on the cross and not ur own works to be saved repentence first means realising ur a sinner who needs Gods help then u change ur mind about sin realising its disgusting before God and u let him help u to stop doing sin putting ur faith in jesus means u do his commandments which u can know about in the bible loving jesus means to do his commandments but u have to be careful first of all u dont know when ur gonna die so come to God and repent today and that jesus is the only way to heaven the only truth and the only life and we can go to heaven bc of what he did on the cross not bc of our own works so ur good works dont get u to heaven its only bc if what jesus did on the cross but that doesnt mean u live a life of sin no u live a life pleasing to God having a true relationship with him but u trust in what jesus did on the cross and not ur own works that can get u to heaven jesus loves u and he can give u eternal life repent today
I would love to see you game off of a Roku TV😂
Right lmao
As a former Sonic Employee, I love that you went the extra mile to grab a Micros Oracle, because that's what the employees are looking at while you're telling them your order. The card reader on it is used for scanning employee id cards.
Yep, it’s what we use at chick fil a and pretty much any other fast food place as far as I can tell
As someone who deals with Oracle on the daily, can't wait to see the pain.
imposter (pfp)
I've seen early access. Over half this video is him troubleshooting it.
i am farted
I love it when they release a new USB peripheral for their newest POS that gets immediately bricked If you plug it in without doing a BIOS update
@@AnderJuarez-hs4ogwow
Dear God. What’s next, reprogramming a Redbox kiosk?
That would be hilarious
Don’t test him
Honestly, I would totally watch him reprogram a red box kiosk.
Yes
I heard that they went out of business, so maybe, just maybe….he could buy a machine lol
I love how in every video like this he starts with a very clean and nice device/computer and then finishes the video with basically a dead corpse disassembled on the table with bringus performing some insane necromancy on it
Technomancy seems fitting lol, he literally both brings and takes life from these disfigured machines.
Because he does not know most of the technologies. He just randomly tries things without any deeper understanding of the technology. Randomly changing bios settings and then see "what it does", failures with boot (why he did not just check the UEFI configuration directly on the EFI partition?), not even knowing what SMI's are? I think one video from this "hacker" was enough for me :D
He is just script kiddie, an amateur kid :D
@@gryffuscze i'm pretty sure he's not branding himself as a hacker, just a stupid guy with stupid dreams that he is gonna achieve, one way or another
his videos are basically just "what if i do a stupid thing on an exotic machine", i don't see why you are raging so much.
@@gryffuscze Can you make a video since you know some extra stuff, please? 👀👀
@@jessy1982 I don't make videos, sorry (and I am for sure not interested in making any videos anywhere). But I can teach you something about FS signatures in binary and for sure UEFI and BIOS boot process if you are interested.
I’m a Sonic employee but I work in the kitchen so I’m not much help. If you ever need to program a bacon super or a large order of tots I’m here.
Are you aware of a blue speedy hedgehog
@@NaraSherko yes but I don’t work for him despite making a whole lot of chili dogs
@@werlynakadera1944 He's lying guys, he helps sonic to steal windows 7 computers
cool i'll have 2 of each
@@ahmede92 Oh thats why sonic jumps on them
next time he'll be like "Installing SteamOS on an Apple Vision Pro's battery pack"
lol
Why does this look like something bringus would do??
Bruh
Too easy for Bringus
Installing Steam OS on homo-sapien Neurons
This is the most distinct sound effects per minute of video watched ive ever seen in my life. the mcdonalds beep, stone obelisk asmr, and gmod noises are tickling me pink.
So... 10 years ago I was wandering my local neighborhood, and noticed a large pile of electronics sitting outside my local Sonic. Pulling up, I looked it over, and thought "Hm, why is this e-waste just sitting here? Are they just gonna throw it away? Maybe I could ask the manager if I could have it?" So I walked up to the kiosk, pushed that brand new, shiny, red button, and asked if I could talk to a manager. Some 20 something kid wanders out and says he's the assistant manager, cause the regular manager was gone for the day. I point to the pile of e-waste and ask what the plan is. He says something along the lines of "I have no idea, but if you can make it go away, please do." Well, I have a minivan and too much time, so I agree, and make the pile vanish... into my garage. This wasn't stall screens, but the actual server hardware that ran on-site, along with kitchen screens and button pads, among other things. The real guts of the operation. The 10.21.4.1 the stall spoke to.
And a year later I sold the server along with most of the components for about $500. Never managed to image the SAS drives, never collected any data on how it worked. Only thing I have left are the old Serial cards the server used, since they were kinda cool and worked with something else I was toying with.
I had the final keys in my hands years ago, and let them slip right through.
I have failed the world.
PS: I went to another sonic to see if I could get more e-waste, since they all were replacing their hardware, and it turns out that kid was *not* supposed to give that to me. I had no idea at the time, but he probably got fired over that... ooops.
I mean... We should have seen their scrap hardware crisis coming. They're not a tiny guerilla startup in a no-name town, they're a regimented conglomerate fortress. Company e-waste laying around instead of going through due processes and boatloads of paperwork? I'm surprised they didn't fire 50 middle managers other than that poor lad.
you had the opportunity of a fucking lifetime... and probably would have gotten arrested so you probably still did the right thing by selling it off
How did you even sell that
you really failed the world
i wonder if the person who gave it to the person who sold it on ebay, or however that worked, got in trouble in any way
I have experience with maintaining POS systems like this for retail/restaurant businesses (although not for Sonic):
CD1 & CD2 refer to Cash Drawer 1 & Cash Drawer 2. These and the 12V Out would all be sent to a splitter / Y-cable that would provide both power and trigger signal to the cash drawer(s).
The COM ports were typically reserved for thermal printers for printing receipts or for sending order tickets to the printers in the kitchen.
Normal USB ports were typically used for barcode scanners for coupons among other random peripherals like base stations for wireless pagers.
We didn't use the USB5 port but the "Customer Display" port was connected to an auxiliary front-facing display so the customer would see their order and total as the items were being entered on the main display.
To be honest - im pretty sure those all ports is just installed because it was a junk anyways. They could just throw all USB's, but no. We gonna slap random bullsh1t so technicians will break their neck by trying to understand how to configure hardware. But to be fair - if you already have some expirience with f̶u̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ maintaining those machines that isn't a problem.
so those customer display ports are what cash registers use at movie theaters to display seat reservations and such, interesting!
@@unamelable256 To be honest there was so much POS stuff around long before USB existed at all thats why they still use so many ports. POS industry doesn't really change. Decades before USB came along we had power out of RS232 com ports hence the 5/9/12v option there it's used to power devices like barcode scanners in the same way USB used to. Epos was well ahead of its time in many ways like that even back in the 80's.
@@unamelable256 the reason the Cash draws had a different port is a mix of backwards compatibility, but also they have got to thwak a massive solenoid to push it open(needs a lot of current at medium voltages above 10v below 100v) and using RJ45 for serial is pretty common
@@unamelable256God created us in his own image but we sinned and broke that image so now we deserve hell but God wanted a way of forgiveness so he took on the form of man suffered on the cross for the forgiveness of sins that whoever repents of his sins and puts his faith in jesus christ can be saved to get that forgiveness u have to repent of ur sins put ur faith in jesus christ follow him and rely on his finished work on the cross and not ur own works to be saved repentence first means realising ur a sinner who needs Gods help then u change ur mind about sin realising its disgusting before God and u let him help u to stop doing sin putting ur faith in jesus means u do his commandments which u can know about in the bible loving jesus means to do his commandments but u have to be careful first of all u dont know when ur gonna die so come to God and repent today and that jesus is the only way to heaven the only truth and the only life and we can go to heaven bc of what he did on the cross not bc of our own works so ur good works dont get u to heaven its only bc if what jesus did on the cross but that doesnt mean u live a life of sin no u live a life pleasing to God having a true relationship with him but u trust in what jesus did on the cross and not ur own works that can get u to heaven jesus loves u and he can give u eternal life repent today
30:08 Apparently store #2104 is located at 1803 N. St. Joseph in
Gonzales, TX.
My wife used to work at sonic back in high school and I showed her this video and I have never seen her more interested in a tech video.
0:01 inside ME???
Friend inside me
Friend inside me
Friend inside me
Friend inside me
@@doradubsGod created us in his own image but we sinned and broke that image so now we deserve hell but God wanted a way of forgiveness so he took on the form of man suffered on the cross for the forgiveness of sins that whoever repents of his sins and puts his faith in jesus christ can be saved to get that forgiveness u have to repent of ur sins put ur faith in jesus christ follow him and rely on his finished work on the cross and not ur own works to be saved repentence first means realising ur a sinner who needs Gods help then u change ur mind about sin realising its disgusting before God and u let him help u to stop doing sin putting ur faith in jesus means u do his commandments which u can know about in the bible loving jesus means to do his commandments but u have to be careful first of all u dont know when ur gonna die so come to God and repent today and that jesus is the only way to heaven the only truth and the only life and we can go to heaven bc of what he did on the cross not bc of our own works so ur good works dont get u to heaven its only bc if what jesus did on the cross but that doesnt mean u live a life of sin no u live a life pleasing to God having a true relationship with him but u trust in what jesus did on the cross and not ur own works that can get u to heaven jesus loves u and he can give u eternal life repent today
As an IT professional who started her journey as the store stock repair tech at Micro Center…who now works at an org where most of my decisions have already been made for me…the unbridled joy I feel watching you cobble together this beautiful monster cannot be overstated. ❤
trans?
29:45 the admin login password being in plain text is hilarious
i tried it and it didnt work (i booted up the image)
Then it's probably a hash with a weird algorithm that spits out valid ASCII instead of random binary
@@ChloeCakePTSD of bcrypt limit in syncthing
@@ChloeCake how i got in to the admin account is because the stall account is also an admin so i change it from there
At least they don't have users passwords and store them in plaintext like some companies did in the past
"We can just take the install.wim file from inside of a Windows 7 installer and move it over to the 'sources' folder on a Windows **8** installer [and later a Windows 10 installer]!"
Bringus, I thought you were mad when you built the cs_office computer tower and ran games on it, but this is an entirely new level of cursed, janky wizardry. I salute you, sir.
@@Claymore729 Windows Setup wizardry
I did this with windows 11 too lol
@@myrealusername2193 Windows Setup tends to just... _not_ care if the install.wim file is different, even with the newer versions of it (except for XP and everything before it, since they don't have wim files) so this is probably why it's possible.
Still wizardry though.
This is closer to dark magic than wizardry
this is actually quite neat and useful!
omfg the camera panning to the CART SHOWING THE BUTTON FOR 162 DOLLARS IS GOLD!
35:57 Now you gotta make the oracle gaming
and install oracle java to play minecraft on real oracle gaming pos pc
But that thing runs on intel atom
The reason the MicrOS Oracle had so many external connectors on the internals, you've gotta think about application. These were devices handled all day 24/7 and were liable to break. Plug and play replacement parts made things a lot easier for the Techs replacing it
Yeah, from engineers for last 60 years of computer history, to just cable pluggers now. Sad.
I used to be IT for restaurants and clubs in Vegas. It’s fun seeing someone discover these POS terminals for the first time. They are very interesting machines. Thanks for the entertainment!😊
12:44 "*android notification sound* f*ck it android in the bios" has got to be one of my favourite parts of the video
Samsung notification sound
This is why you should switch from iPhone
@@dontraiseriggy752 most people don't got the money to buy an iPhone
@@dontraiseriggy752 iPhone only cares about their self really because they’re adding such a dynamic view but inside it’s really slow
Hate to be that guy, but they said 'from iPhone,' not 'to iPhone,' implying that you should switch from iPhone to Android.
I genuinely laughed out loud at "What a POS" and I hold you responsible for getting my niece riled up, sir. That pun was so bad that I'm mad I didn't make it first.
Great pun
I made that joke when I worked at McDonalds, I laughed so hard when he said it
@@blue-spy-j4g lmao
Your choices of background music are stellar
you are the most impossible to predict channel on this entire platform i could not have seen this coming in a million years lmao
Then you don't know Bobby Fingers. Thank me later
unpredictable
is always better
the editing and the sound effects specifically bring me joy
Same. I love his editing.
Half Life sound effects make everything so ~whimsical~
16:35 ah yes my favourite theme, the dancing triangle
I heard that some Sonic drive-ins use the same Oracle Micros. searched it up.
I physically winced at the fact that 2014 was a decade ago
I entered kindergarten in 2014, I graduate in 3 years,
@@gio_ozz Sorry to hear kindergarten has been so rough, congrats on finally graduating! You're gonna love first grade!
@@Xbob42 Spectacular.
@@gio_ozz the last 3 years of kindergarten are really tough, wish you luck!
@@gio_ozz i graduate from high school this year 💀
The internal/external connections for speakers and rj45 for card reader is so technicians that travel to support these things out in the field can easily swap failing hardware
The surprise Doug DeMuro got me. God I love that man, even if he can't microphone to save his life
I was off doing something and not looking at the screen, and I thought, “wait, that’s a DougScore” 😂 I never thought there would be overlap like that, seeing as I only found this video here in my recommendations
"Sonic2 is bigger than Sonic1 for some reason."
I'd assume because Sonic 2 has twice the levels than Sonic 1, but who knows
it's also got twice the cut content! AND a new character to boot!
@win_ini listen you, I've got enough research notes on Sonic 2 cut content that it gives me a headache, don't remind me lol
Sonic the Hedgehog (MD, 1991) = 512 KB
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (MD, 1992) = 1024 KB
you are not wrong. you get a point
@@casultaser Sonic Gold and Silver version was so big that they couldn't fit the whole thing on a single cartridge. They had to get Iwata to help them out, and he compressed it so well that they were able to fit the entirety of Sonic 1 on the cart, too!
I have never seen one of you videos before. your editing style is so mesmerizing. I will now consume your content like its the air I breathe
omg recording the sound of when you tap the end of an aux cable for the speaker bit is such a specific thing to reference and i love you for it lmao
Same, laughed way too hard 😂
It _was_ quite satisfying!
33:41 Love that Salem Techsperts reference😂
frrr
I knew what he was referencing the second he said it lmao
Finally second best technician
Bringus became the second because Bringus does not have a little tiny racoon finger.
And that doug score reference too😂😂😂
This has been the most wild ride in any gaming page and it was mostly lower level systems architecture, I love it
I didn't do work for Micros machines. But when I was at NCR we had VERY similar machines. Those ethernet ports that are labeled com and those CD ports are for receipt printers, debit readers, barcode scanners, and cash drawers. That is why they supply voltage.
I had a 7702 that was given to me as trash, I was able to get it back up and running. Eventually mounted it on my wall for a while, then gave it to a friend as I really was not using it. Cool stuff, not nearly as underpowered as people would think.
new california republic
God created us in his own image but we sinned and broke that image so now we deserve hell but God wanted a way of forgiveness so he took on the form of man suffered on the cross for the forgiveness of sins that whoever repents of his sins and puts his faith in jesus christ can be saved to get that forgiveness u have to repent of ur sins put ur faith in jesus christ follow him and rely on his finished work on the cross and not ur own works to be saved repentence first means realising ur a sinner who needs Gods help then u change ur mind about sin realising its disgusting before God and u let him help u to stop doing sin putting ur faith in jesus means u do his commandments which u can know about in the bible loving jesus means to do his commandments but u have to be careful first of all u dont know when ur gonna die so come to God and repent today and that jesus is the only way to heaven the only truth and the only life and we can go to heaven bc of what he did on the cross not bc of our own works so ur good works dont get u to heaven its only bc if what jesus did on the cross but that doesnt mean u live a life of sin no u live a life pleasing to God having a true relationship with him but u trust in what jesus did on the cross and not ur own works that can get u to heaven jesus loves u and he can give u eternal life repent today@@sara8913
calm down man it's only fallout, it's not premarital sex or anything@@ralouph3238
Whats next? Playing Microsoft Flight simulator on an inflight entertainment system?
That would actually be amazing messing with inflight entertainment
Well most run Linux or Android so not impossible and 70% possible
Possible
@@309electronics5 100% possible if you play one of the older games on DOSBox
but that's just no fun
@@309electronics5proton lets you run ms flight sim on linux
This is the first video I've seen from you and boy have I been missing out - great editing and comedy gold and great technical depth. Thanks!
Now go to a Sonic, connect it to their Wi-Fi, open stall.exe and hit the red button 💀
YES
Pretty sure that's gonna be a waste of time. I'd be shocked if they got their internal management network actually exposed to the public. Or as a starter, just get a simple laptop there, and test the IP addresses that were needed in the panel and see if they return anything.
The problem is that most restaurants (the one I work at included) use a hidden network or physical wired network to communicate with the internal servers. And even if you could get on the hidden network, there usually are also device ID checks or similar to make sure no unwanted / expired devices are still in use.
Lol I gotta see this happen, but it should be done on something a lot more... portable
they have wifi for staff equipment maybe they changed the password for their wifi but if not maybe you could.
Dude your editing style, your presentation, the humor, everything is fuckin’ incredible. Exceptional content please keep making more
The valve sound effects are good
I am quite honestly disappointed that UA-cam didn't recommend me your channel earlier.
You have achieved the perfect combination of technicality & entertainment for us humorous nerds to the point where I'm both learning and giggling. I salute you, and subscribe (obviously)
Bringus must defeat all of the fast food ordering screens to become the king of calories
First
Bringus, I love your videos. Not just the ''Installing [OS] on [device]'', but the way you paste in the funny sounds and memes just makes it whole.
what a sick video. top class for the nerds. legit funny too. great work!
if it helps i could come over and talk muffled from the other side and pretend to be a sonic employee
I used to work with Micros systems, InfoGenesys, Comtrex, and others, interesting video. For those who aren't aware: COM1 and 2 are Serial Ports and can also be enabled to send voltage to certain things, like a Customer VFD Display, Cash Drawer, etc. COM 5 is just standard Serial Port w/o voltage sending. The CD 1 and 2 are for Cash Drawer's 1 and 2 and I think the PS/2 looking Customer Display also is a serial connection with a different connector. Also that IP Address it's trying to talk to, is definitely a LAN one. Great find none the less, great video!
This video brought back strong memories I have from when I used to get paid to fight with GameStop's LS Retail POS system that they were trying out. It was fed off a Navision back-end and ran on HP computers with touch screens from who-gives-a-damn. I had to leap through so many hoops to streamline the PXE-based imaging process, all while scratching my head over the mysterious quirks of the hardware we'd been given.
20:54 A well-regulated Windows 7 installer, being necessary to the security of a Windows, the right of the Bringus to keep and bear Command Prompt, shall not be infringed.
The second amendment.
"Security"
2:08 PCI Express? Put a GPU on it and let's game, LFG!
9:10 Looks like PCI-E but it's not.
@@indask8wait but it still used the DC 12 out to input its power regardless. The pcie could still potentially just be a really modified pcie port, you even see that on the right side it’s connected to some sort of chipset potentially related to data
Mom can we get Sonic?
We have Sonic at home.
Sonic at home:
This will definitely be a banger EDIT: it was in fact, a burger
*burger
lol
@@BringusStudios my bad
@@BringusStudios Banger burger
*bunger
15:52 “ this is a 64-bit household “ 😂😂😂 idk why that was funny asf
UA-cam has been trying to get me to watch this video for a week, I finally caved, and I am now a subscriber. I like your particular brand of chaos good sir
8:43 the fact that you made the audio keep playing a bit while the picture froze is equal parts evil and genius.
SOMEONE Stop this man, Last week he came to wallmart and started installing steam os on everything
He installed Steam OS on my defibrillator
he installed steam os on my brain please help he’s playing half life on me
i smell burning tosdt
@@meow.5219 but do you run better then the leapster?
@@teddy_bear6122i stll smel bnurt todst
Bro this is the first video i've seen of yours and it's been an absolute blast, I love it!
dude i absolutely love your editing style. it's what i strive for on the rare occasion I make videos. I love your use of sound effects. Source sound effects are great and you do it so well but it's not overused. Your videos are so peak.
Man created a windows Frankenstein just to have a sonic menu...
What a genius
I work in restaurant tech deployment (Xenial, Aloha, Oracle) and this is actually super cool to see. lol
The software will literally run on anything. Me and my work buddies have considered trying to run some of them on a raspberry pi.
oh my god you could TOTALLY start a rumor about how sonic kiosks all have doom installed based on that thing at 29:22
The sonic kiosk menu is actually written on IDtech
This is the software preservation endgame. Soon we will possess the data to preserve all kiosks
Man, I have abandoned IT for nearly a decade. I should get back into it. This looks like fun. You literally are doing what I enjoyed. Figuring things out. I would spend hours trying to get something to run or boot only to then spend 5 minutes on it and move on. 😂
This is my first video. But I had to subscribe. And you're pretty funny too! Thanks for the video! Gonna binge some more tonight.
33:43 Salem would be proud
SMI is a system management interrupt.
A way to interface with the firmware (system management mode).
SMIs are documented in the intel sdm and amd programmer manuals if you are curious.
Bro
This is the first video related to this particular genre that I ever watched
And I just want to say one thing
You are LEGGEENNNDDDDD❤
Dude, you're like a mix of Michael MJD and Dankpods. I freaking love that!
Those Half Life sound effects scratch my itch so well...
2:50 that’s a sticker for Windows POSReady, which was a version of Embedded designed specifically for point of sale machines. POSReady 7 is based on Windows 7 and was deprecated one year after 7 was. It had a unique startup screen, too. Presumably, because of which Microsoft logo is on that license sticker , that originally ran POSReady 8 based on Windows 8. Not actually 100% sure on that one though.
The previous generation of Walmart’s self-checkout terminals (the ones with the number on a light-up box on a stick) ran POSReady 7. No idea what the new ones (the ones with a light-up sheet of plastic on a stick) run, because I quit before they replaced the old ones we had at my store.
the new ones run Windows 10 with the self checkout running in a fullscreen Chrome tab.
Next Video - taking the sonic drive in tablet to Sonic and asking employees why they haven't come to take my order
19:36 someone tell this guy that 32bit oses can only handle 4GB of RAM...
Lol
was looking for the comment 😭
depends. some 32bit oses with a PAE supported cpu and some tricks can go up to 64GB if not mistaken.
Tbf, I have Windows XP 32 bit installed on a laptop with 8gb of ram. It works perfectly fine, it just can only use 3gb.
Today, I had my A/C go out, a piece of musical equipment that I had emotional attachment to fail on me, and I got a flat tire on the way home; this thumbnail popped up and I belly laughed, genuinely made up for the hell of a day I just went through. Thanks for that, man
i read this as you saying your ac was the musical equipment. you musta had some chill beats
This was a pretty amusing video watching you make this work while I am sitting here knowing how it works. I used to provide support for the Sonic Drive In pos systems, including the stalls, for over 8 years.
1:41
Just a note here, those "ethernet" ports labelled com are actually serial ports using an RJ jack instead of a bulky serial port.
Some have custom pinouts, so fair warning.
Yup, don't want to plug that into an ethernet port. The card reader was probably serial too.
there's a sonic near by where one of it's ordering screens has been blue screened for at least 6 months now
They got the CrowdStrike beta lmao /j
@@dombomb64ARE YOU /SRS OR /J?
@@VanceVanced GARFIELD!!!!
@@dombomb64I’m am hungry I want some lasaga
@@drdca8263 you are eating us out of house and home, garmfield
11:29 Crowdstrike back at it again
THE GREATEST TECHNITIAN THAT'S EVER LIVED MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣‼‼🔥🔥
i absolutely love the journey of these videos, it's very fun watching you go into this with absolutely no knowledge if any of this will work, and all the workarounds you have to do just to get *something* going
I love it when bringus uses portal 2 sound tracks in the bg
I mean, if it's just connecting to another computer somewhere in the building, you could possibly reverse engineer what it's looking for and host your own spoof Sonic server
I can do that lol should i???
@@Dollar_CoinYT Do it!
@@Dollar_CoinYTreply with updates if you get anything working!
6:16 THE HEADPHONE JACK NOISE, I CAN’T
It sounds like the old Linus tech tips intro
33:48 @SalemTechsperts is the greatest technician indeed
The "Why doesn't this come out, I want this to come out" bit fucking killed me. I know so many people like that
PCI Express on any device: _exists_
Jon Bringus the madman: *Is this a GPU slot?*
The second greatest technician thats ever lived
The realization around that 12V out evoked a mischievous giggle from me
Oh my god it gets worse in all the best ways
14:23 That's the noise I make whenever I have to fix computer problems.
hey dude just found your channel and its just the right kind of unique weird interesting projects that i dont see anyone else doing so i love it. well done and keep up the good work.
should i stay up 16 hours just to watch this.... i think i must
33:42 "second greatest technichian yo ever live" hits deep
your sound effects are so funny lol I usually don't go for this kind of dry humor but the effects take it over the top!
The use of Sonic the Hedgehog music throughout the video, just for 24:40 to be a cue for Wii Sports Resort music, hurt my soul in an intangible way. Good job!
The amount of Sonic sound effects in this video is too damn right
The humour, the editing, the nerdyness of the whole thing, great video!
3:50 so wholesome wtf 😭
Every Bringus youtuber reference just lets me know we have the same exact sense of humor.
hello sir
Windows 7 not preinstalling drivers is a classic Windows move that we've been conditioned out of. Like a dog versus a wolf, we were slowly acclimated to getting all our nice drivers in one place. Back in the day, our kind had to fight to get anything to work, uphill, both ways -
Back in my day we had to hit F6 to load RAID drivers from a freaking floppy.
In my closet I have my old "server" with a 3ware 7500-8 and eight 250GB IDE drives. Should spin it up for old time's sake...
Ahh! That "car detect" stuff you found in the config explains those exposed components under the screen! I've always wondered if they were just using the camera to give the Carhops a remote visual of the cx (which is still entirely plausible on its own), but that didn't ever explain to me what the other holes were for. They're using sonar to detect stall occupancy! That's *got* to be an amazing source of info.
What’s crazy is the car detect hardware is there, but Micros never made anything in the software to actually show someone is there or not.
@@KG5PHD It could be for only stats collection. Knowing when each stall is occupied, and for how long could be a very useful source of data. Basically automates away the collection of data to answer questions like how busy the store is, and at what times, which stalls are used the most, how long do people look at the menu before pressing the button, what percentage of people stay and eat vs take their food to go, that sort of thing.
Seam os on a newborn.
Yes
Seam os on a newborn
Seam os on a newborn.
Seam os on a newborn.
kick the baby
Great video I really enjoyed watching this and would love to see a part 2. The employee side is a slightly modified version of micros RES, could likely be recreated using files available on the internet, the res server was that 10x ip address it was complaining about not being able to contact (source: I worked at an undisclosed company dealing with Sonics crap before) you'd need the workstation files (on Internet) and server files (also on Internet) you'd likely have to do some digging to get the stall screen to interface with the server as res is a royal pain to deal with