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Re:Compulab Airtop – Natural Airflow Desktop by spin on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:02AM (#12965740)
I imagine that's for use with POS terminals (ie cash registers). A lot of those still have serial-port barcode scanners or serial-port printers.
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Re:Compulab Airtop – Natural Airflow Desktop by jsjohnst on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:42AM (#12967896)
I'm pretty sure the ports are also commonly used for cash drawers.
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