Regitel Cash Register / Point-of-Sale Terminal
date: label: date made
content: ca 1970
name: label: maker
content: American Regitel Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The Regitel is an early point-of-sale (POS) electronic cash register. Such terminals capture information about sales for computer processing.
label: Description
content: The device was made by the American Regitel Corporation and installed as a part of a networked system in department stores across the nation. The networks communicated over telephone systems at 9600 baud, which was extremely fast for the time period.
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content: A mark on the front reads: REGITEL. A mark on tape on the bottom of the machine reads: Theresa 3-22-71.
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content: For related documentation, see 2002.0091.02 through 2002.0091.06.
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content: American Regitel Corporation was founded in Palo Alto, California, in 1968. The firm was acquired by Motorola in 1970.
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content: References:
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content: Accession file.
label: Description
content: Auerbach Publishers, <I>Snapshot of Point-of-Sale Systems</I>, Pennsauken, N.J.: Auerbach Publishers, 1978, p. 11.
label: Description
content: Creative Strategies Internaional, <I>Retail Automation to 1983</I>, San Jose: Creative Strategies International, 1980, esp. p. 109.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Carlos
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Work
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Cash and Credit Registers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Evan L. Ragland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0091.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0091
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0091.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 20 1/2 in x 20 in; 22.86 cm x 52.07 cm x 50.8 cm