Helping a customer who has a small business. Her SAM4S SPS-345 was originally programmed by the dealer she purchased from, apparently is no longer in business, not surprising.
The unit was purchased back in 2017, a lot has changed since then. The question is, can I change what gets reported when the machine is Z'd out? I don't think that she understands the words, if the machine can be reprogrammed, change I change the words? I suspect that they took some of the PLU's and gave them names, like "tea room," "non-taxable food," etc.
I believe there is s/w that can be used to program the machine, don't have it, don't know where to get it, since the dealer is gone. The machine can be programmed via the keyboard, using the menu-driven display. The machine can be backed up to sd-ram in fat32, which shows a directory structure when viewed via windoze 7. The data contains some ascii stuff but appears to need some special s/w to read. I tried bringing it into excel with various delimiters, no luck.
What is the best way to attack this problem, or is it simply not worth the trouble?
BTW, does anybody know where the RS-232 port is? It is not next to the SD-RAM socket.
Jim
The unit was purchased back in 2017, a lot has changed since then. The question is, can I change what gets reported when the machine is Z'd out? I don't think that she understands the words, if the machine can be reprogrammed, change I change the words? I suspect that they took some of the PLU's and gave them names, like "tea room," "non-taxable food," etc.
I believe there is s/w that can be used to program the machine, don't have it, don't know where to get it, since the dealer is gone. The machine can be programmed via the keyboard, using the menu-driven display. The machine can be backed up to sd-ram in fat32, which shows a directory structure when viewed via windoze 7. The data contains some ascii stuff but appears to need some special s/w to read. I tried bringing it into excel with various delimiters, no luck.
What is the best way to attack this problem, or is it simply not worth the trouble?
BTW, does anybody know where the RS-232 port is? It is not next to the SD-RAM socket.
Jim
