48 Comments Posted by Seattle_Dave

It's Zolatone! Good call, Bugout. We used to sell it in my family's paint store back in the '70s and '80s.

Cash registers used to be so expensive that most small businesses (and perhaps budget-conscious psychiatric hospitals) bought used machines that had been bought new by grocery or department store chains. Thus you would end up with a machine that had been ordered with department titles appropriate for, in this case, a big-box store with produce, meat, groceries, and appliances. My family's paint store cash register, for example, had keys for produce, meat, canned goods, photo, and bakery.

I'll hazard a guess that $96.48 was the total of all sales (the "Z" total, if you're old-school retail) from the last time the cash reregister was cleared on its last day of use.