Silent Aluminum Point Of Service Terminal

Woodykak · Post by **Woodykak** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:00 pm

Here's a POS Terminal that found. The entire case is cast aluminum. The computer is very heavy. It uses an ELO 15" touch display. The processor is an Intel 650 Mhz M. It uses either a CF card or 40gig Noteboo HD. It has dual monitor support (touch screen plus one more). The Mobo is double sided with ram on one side, and the CPU on the other. The CPU cooler is in direct contact with the cast aluminum case. The case is the heat sink. This system is completely sealed, and has no moving parts other than inside the hard drive. The HD is mounted behind the touch screen. The system uses a 62 watt external Power Brick. The ONLY sound is a very slight ticking from the HD, if your ear is touching the touch screen. Wouldn't want to use it for gaming, but it's still kinda cool.

View of the touch screen.

Side View

View of the bottom of the terminal with the touch screen resting on the floor.

View of the bottom of the terminal from the front. Note the bottom of the Mobo with the Ram chip. The CPU is on the other side of the board.

View of the bottom of the terminal from the back

alleycat · Post by **alleycat** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:48 am

I like the name of it... "Obvios"!

HammerSandwich · Post by **HammerSandwich** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:08 pm

Interesting. Link?

flyingsherpa · Post by **flyingsherpa** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:39 am

so, have you got it to load a useful OS (linux, windows etc.)? looks neat, let us know what you do with it.

Woodykak · Post by **Woodykak** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:34 am

I've run the system with Windows XP Pro or Windows Embedded (WEPOS).
From the Website:DOS, Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP, WinCE, Linux (RedHat 7.3), XP Embedded

Links:

www.obvios.com

http://www.obvios.com/glaive.html

They also have a wall mounted version:

http://www.obvios.com/pilumII.html

HammerSandwich · Post by **HammerSandwich** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:51 am

Thanks!

Jay_S · Post by **Jay_S** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:01 pm

Very interesting! How did you "find" it? It looks like it would be quite expensive to purchase new. It could be a perfect kitchen pc or whole-house automation front end or something. What is the DC converter rated for?

Jay

Woodykak · Post by **Woodykak** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:41 pm

Just over a year ago, my company picked up this line. We sell Retail Technology solutions (technology for retailers), mostly Microsoft solutions.

Yes, not cheap, with OS and 40 gig HD about $2,700. Built, primarily for Retail and Restaurant (dirty) environments.

DC converter = 62 watts

I think that the wall mount version would be great for home automation.

mb2 · Post by **mb2** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:58 pm

very cool. quite a range of OSes there. i'd love to run winCE on a 'normal' computer (or even XPe), i wonder whether its any more efficient than windows98 can be- if not, begs the question; why don't we see win98 on portable devices?. also the 650mhz celeron M is nice. any idea what this system draws? (if u have a kill-a-watt for example).
and is it the 12" or the 15"?
could make a nice bed-side PC; add a couple of usb sticks and u could watch TV or browse the web.. or a high-end squeeze box type thing..

Woodykak · Post by **Woodykak** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:32 pm

I think that XPe is still a fairly big footprint. Should be more stable than Windows XP Pro though.

The product literature sayes that it draws 40 to 50 watts.

I have th e 15" version. It's my demo system. Any technical clients that I have eat these guys up.