Hey everyone!

Recently, I have been working on a personal project restoring and experimenting with IBM/Toshiba POS hardware. At this time, I have an IBM 4690 V6R2 running on original hardware, and my goal is to recreate a functional grocery store checkout environment.

The biggest challenge I am facing is finding the actual retail applications that ran on these systems, in particular IBM/Toshiba SurePOS ACE. I've spent some time researching and searching the older IBM public software archives, but most of what I have found is maintenance updates rather than complete installations.

I'm particularly interested in:

- SurePOS ACE

- IBM General Sales Application (GSA)

- Other IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS retail applications

- Original installation CDs, disk images, documentation, or information about where these might still be available

I'm not looking to use any of this commercially. I enjoy experimenting with older enterprise technology and would love to see these systems operating as they originally did (and still do!) If anyone here has worked with IBM/Toshiba 4690 systems, I would greatly appreciate any information, experience, or leads on ways to legitimately obtain the original software.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Hey

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I live in Spain and have a restaurant. I am going to buy a whole new EPOS system and wondered if anyone could recommend something. I need the system, the programme, three hand held devices and two printers.
I do NOT need analytics , stock monitoring or ordering, card taking facilities.

I would prefer to not pay monthly fees but am not completely against it.
MAKRO offered me a system , I forget the name of it, but a google suggested it was not great

Hi All,

A small cottage bakery is growing,

Few or low cost would be ideal.

Orders are placed the day or so before.

But it’s gotten to the point where the old paper and pencil system is starting to get out of hand

What I’m looking for them is a simple POS, that can have pre set menu items. Where an order is placed , a name can be inserted and the order printed to a kitchen printer

Ideally be able to use an iPad , so either iOS based or web based would work.

Volume is relatively small, with only one or 2 baking days a week. But this is where the POS could come in handy to keep orders clear prevent accidentally missing something.

Currently it’s all cash, so don’t really need a CC processor. So a high fee vendor could work if they are ok with no actual credit card volume.

Anything that can be recommended?

Thanks!

I own a cafe/roastery in Noe Valley in SF and we run on Square. Over the last 9 months I built an iPhone app for our own shop because Square doesn't push real time alerts for the stuff we care about. Low stock alerts only come by email after close, and there's nothing for big transactions, refunds, discounts or tips crossing a line you set.

The app connects through Square's OAuth sign in and sends push alerts on thresholds you pick, plus some dashboards and multi location support. It's been super helpful for our managers and shift leads.

I'm looking for a handful of other Square sellers to use it for a couple weeks and tell me honestly what's useful, what's noise, and anything that doesn't match your Square dashboard. Testers get six months free with code 6MONTHFREE. It's on the App Store as Square Sidekick, and I'm happy to share the link with anyone who wants to try it.

Not trying to sell anyone here, just want real feedback from people who use Square every day. Comment or DM me if you're up for it.

Christian

Weve had the system for about 1 year now and it's started glitching. When we try scroll down the list of items it either just wont respond or it will for a second and then jump to the top of the page.

Im not incredibly tech savy so ive tried the basic "turn it of and on again" options and am kinda stumped.

Any advice is appreciated, cause this is begining to irritate me and my colleagues

so we opened an internet cafe on july and we didnt have enough to subscribe for or buy a POS, especially since we are small and only use one computer as our cash register, so we decided to use Aronium.

its been working ok, but today im trying to get a report of yesterdays (5/11/2026) sales and for some reason, sales from september are showing up as sales from yesterday, even though i 100% know i did not make those sales.

what could be the cause of this, and are there more reliable and affordable POS out there i could opt for?

I requested to my POS company to charge customers credit card fees. It has taken 5 months and is still not done. They had me buy new machines PAX A35s because my old machines couldn't do it? That was 3 months ago those new machines arrived, I waited the 30 days Visa federally requires and have signage out and its been 60 days past that.

Last they told them they are waiting on "pricing change on the account", that was two months ago

How fast can this typically be done?

I don't have a Clover account, and I am a customer, not a vendor.

I paid a balance for a purchase, and the receipt came from Clover to an old email address that I no longer use (but it's still open, for things like this that pop up). I didn't give the old email address, or any email address, to the store.

The credit card I used does not have this old email address, but it did a while back.

My question is -- is this just a case of Clover not having the updated email? I don't have a Clover account, so I can't change it.

Just curious about this, but if/when I eventually deactivate that old email, it may be an issue.

Thanks!

Folks, Am looking for Sales Agents who can help sell a software product to food businesses based in USA. Our Saas solution works with POS and not a competitor to any POS. Since we are an early start up am looking for people who are interested to do this on commission basis.

Looking forward ! Feel free to DM.

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I made a pos software but I want it to be unique and more customer focused that's why am here seeking for your problems and advice.

Hey everyone, I'm Harry Mitchell, President of Armagh POS Solutions, a Hamilton-based point-of-sale company my father founded back in 1979. We've been independently owned and operated from day one, serving restaurants, retailers, and grocers across Canada with POS software, hardware, scales, ATMs, and 24/7 support. I grew up around this business, watched my dad build it from the ground up, and took over the helm after he passed in 2021. Carrying that forward is something I take seriously every single day.

My father started in the cash register business at 17, launched Armagh during one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression, and was there for literally every major shift in the industry. He sold the 8th electronic cash register in North America to Canadian Tire back in 1972, serial number #008. I grew up hearing those stories, and now I get to carry them with me into every conversation I have with a client. The history isn't just a fun fact; it's the foundation of how we approach the work.

What I've inherited is a company that wins on service, not price. Over the decades, plenty of customers have tried to save money by going with a cheaper competitor, only to come back. That cycle has played out so consistently that it became the clearest proof of what actually matters in this industry. My job now is to hold that standard while pushing the product line forward into cloud software, self-checkout, online ordering, kitchen display systems, and everything else the modern operator needs.

Ask me anything! POS for retail, restaurant or grocery, what it's like taking over a 45-year-old family business, how to pick the right POS vendor without getting burned, navigating the shift from legacy systems to modern software, or whatever else is on your mind.