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The Forgotten Realm of 1990s PC Barcode Scanning Kits | LGR (youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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BARCODES! No one cares about 'em. Yet they were once exciting, cutting edge tech. Heck, old computer magazines often had entire sections dedicated to UPC scanning and software. So I finally got a PC barcode reader kit from 1994 and used it with some POS applications! And Duke 3D.

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, all the computer-paper interfaces are cool IMHO. That DataMatrix and QR are mainstream now I mostly like too.

What I don't like is the wide reliance upon open Internet connectivity, and even worse, upon services in it.