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- Bank Card Readers
- k Card Readers ====== These are essentially what someone will use to pay for something via debit, credit, or digital payments. You know: tapping cards, swiping cards, entering PINs, or using some sort of digital payment method. Since they deal w... act that these run Linux. They’re everywhere, and sometimes one can see them on “system information” wit
- Access Control Systems
- a passcode into, tap a keycard or ID against, or something similar. Due to the relative "technical obsc... e based off of MIPS or ARM architectures, running some sort of Unix, Windows CE, or custom operating sys... sually, a device running DOOM implies that it has some sort of OS running underneath, but in this case,
- Advertisement Screens
- isements, that is not just a TV mounted on a wall somewhere. In other words, this is for advertisements ... r gas stations (circa 2012) apparently use Linux. Some postulation was done about the potential version
- DJ Systems
- level of technical capability, typically running some sort of Linux variant paired with an ARM chip. =... ioneer XDJ-RX2 ===== ==== Operating Systems (ARM something) ==== === Linux 3.0.101 (+Doom) === >Conne
- Handheld Barcode Scanners
- n the past, these were x86 based devices that ran some variant of DOS or Windows. Over time, they evolved to be MIPS, ARM, and RISC based, running some sort of Windows CE or Linux. Nowadays, barcode sc
- Modular Tape Drive Libraries
- gh it is likely that Unix-based OSes are at least somewhat prevalent. ===== Sun StorageTek SL3000 =====... drive, but it can be easily netbooted off to run some other OS, such as Debian. Also runs Doom, of cour
- Urinals
- ====== Urinals ====== Needs little explanation. Some companies have decided to staple Android/ARM-based... erating Systems (ARM?) ==== === Android === For some reason, these little things have a screen on them
- Air Compressors
- work on a "control" or "interface" screen placed somewhere on the compressor. Since not many air compre
- ATMs
- Automated Teller Machines, either at a bank or at some other place. These commonly feature a CPU based o
- Business Cards
- nteresting creation made for $2.88, complete with some interesting little programs that are more than me
- Data Transfer Tablets
- ock operating system for this little device. With some hacks and workarounds in later-mentioned Linux-ba
- Faucets
- Water and technology usually don't mix, but for some reason (advertising?), certain brands of faucets
- Lottery Machines
- inding one of these. It is easy to make these run some other program though, apparently. One can simply
- Point of Sale Systems
- and Unix, embedded versions of this software, and sometimes even older systems such as DOS. CPU architec
- Ticket Validators
- idating the tickets or passes of entering riders. Some will be found at cultural locations, either at hi