The IBM 4683 was

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

's first PC-based

point of sale The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place at which a retail transaction is completed. At the point of sale, the merchant calculates the amount owed by the customer, indicates that amount, may prepare an invoice f ...

(POS) system. It was introduced in 1985. The system consists of a PC-based controller and

thin client In computer networking, a thin client, sometimes called slim client or lean client, is a simple (low-Computer performance, performance) computer that has been Program optimization, optimized for Remote desktop, establishing a remote connectio ...

based POS workstations, typically with a

Token Ring Token Ring is a Physical layer, physical and data link layer computer networking technology used to build local area networks. It was introduced by IBM in 1984, and standardized in 1989 as IEEE Standards Association, IEEE 802.5. It uses a sp ...

network. The system requires an IBM

AS/400 The IBM AS/400 (Application System/400) is a family of midrange computers from IBM announced in June 1988 and released in August 1988. It was the successor to the System/36 and System/38 platforms, and ran the OS/400 operating system. Lower-cost ...

server to be in the network. The 4683 is still used today by some retailers (such as TOYS "R" US in the UK as of 2014). However the 4683 has been phased out by some retailers to its more modern successors, the IBM 4693 and the IBM 4694.

Capabilities

The IBM 4683 had a lockable cash drawer and had the ability to check credit card validity, display item prices and descriptions, and record transactions electronically.

References

4683 {{Compu-hardware-stub

Capabilities

See also

References