IBM 4684 POS cabling instructions and floppy disk help

[talorel]

Have an old IBM4684 system, has cash drawer, keyboard, mono screen, CPU, printer, in-counter scanner.

Need to find out how to connect it all - have tried many combinations that do not seem to work. I cannot seem to find any diagrams online - hopefully someone here has some experience? I'd be happy to see a photo of the back of the system.

As well, there is a floppy drive but the system came with no disk (yes, purchased used from closed out business). Is this mandatory? What would be on it - ie boot?

Many thanks for any assistance you can offer.

 

[Circle9]

I've worked with an IBM 4694 system before, but not a 4684. The setup instructions should be pretty much the same, I'm guessing. I've included a couple pages of a manual of where to plug things in.

 

[IBMSurePOSGuy]

The port assignments would be generally as follows for IBM peripherals...

3A/B - Cash drawers (A would be the primary)
4 - Customer Display
5 - Keyboard
7 - POS Printer
9/E - Scanner/Pinpad/etc

As for the floppy drive, 4684 usually had a hard drive installed so the OS was on there and the floppy drive was for installation, updates, etc. It's been a long time but I am fairly certain that it could run from floppy without the hard drive (assuming you have he diskette(s))

Hope this helps you out.

Hope this helps you.

 

[rclarke250]

All of the cables should have a number like stated above. That number on the cable means it goes into the same numbered port on the back of the 4684. The only one I question is the flatbed scanner goes into port 17. There is no port 9/E on the 4684. The floppy drive would use reference disks for testing, and loading the 4680/4690 OS.

No idea why you would have purchased this old of a system, it was withdrawn by IBM in the 90's. And service was withdrawn several years ago as well.

Also this system does not natively support ethernet. It runs store loop, a type of token ring system. And unless you have the register connected to a store loop server it won't work right, unless the register is doubling as the server, and then good luck. But needless to say, there is no support for this product, everything at IBM regarding it, has a cost to purchase the information.