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TRANZ 330

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Manufacturer
  
VeriFone

CPU
  
Zilog Z80

Type
  
General-purpose Point of Sale (POS) device

Operating system
  
Proprietary VeriFone TCL

Display
  
16-character vacuum fluorescent display

Input
  
Card reader, two serial ports, optional bar code or PIN pad device

The TRANZ 330 is a popular point-of-sale device manufactured by VeriFone in 1985. The most common application for these units is bank and credit card processing, however, as a general purpose computer, they can perform other novel functions. Other applications include gift/benefit card processing, prepaid phone cards, payroll and employee timekeeping, and even debit and ATM cards. They are programmed in a proprietary VeriFone TCL language (Terminal Control Language), which is unrelated to the Tool Command Language used in UNIX environments.

References

TRANZ 330 Wikipedia