[ILUG] Connecting Trintech box to linux ?

[Caolan McNamara]

At 18:47 21.06.00 +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 06:40:22PM +0200, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>
> > How does it all fit together ? The ordinary webserver gets the number, the
> > terminal sticks into this machine over serial cable and the terminal has a
> > modem/ dedicated line to the the bank

>eek!  almost, but no.  you emulate the terminal in software.  all you have
>to do is speak the protocol over the wire to the bank

Well that definitely makes a module for ccvs theoretically accessable anyway,
but one last query, Dave Burke mentioned that they had "trintech boxes in the
office and we noticed that they have RS232 ports on the back" which he wanted
to plug into his system, are these standalone point of sales equipment for
shops and the like ? Quickly browsing trintech.com doesn't seem to list
any other type of hardware except pos equipment.

Aside: The
http://www.trintech.com/products/payware_emerchant/physical/evia/evia_2000_1.html
looked stunningly familiar, all the taxis drivers in norway had very similiar
equipment. Norway now, theres a wired place. Can order taxi from hotels 
through
hotel/taxi network (content free marketspeak: b2b venture allowing 
instantaneous
intercommunication to leverage the synthesis ?), note when one gets assigned
to your call, I suspect track its location but I didn't get a chance to check
that, and then after all that pay with credit card in the taxi. Absolutely 
beats
the crap out of any otherthing else Ive seen.

C.