On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:57:19 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:

On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 5:35:26 PM UTC-5, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/26/2018 4:18 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:15:49 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:56:05 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


Have you seen this? Just happened the other day. Mother and daughter
are damn lucky neither were shot. Perp was arrested, taken to hospital
in critical condition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwiSl_zuSd4


Hadn't seen it. Agree that they were damn lucky. They both should have taken some lessons in
shooting also! It seemed like they hit the guy several times, I wonder what they were shooting.
Maybe .25 caliber?

Looks like .38s to me and I am not surprised they didn't hit this guy
anywhere serious. They used horrible tactics and their shooting style
was "unique" to say the least. Someone needed to remind them to aim.
Two armed people, in familiar surroundings should have trapped this
guy in a crossfire and fired from cover with a decent rest.



Yeah Greg, they should have acted more like Navy Seals, huh?

They accomplished their objective. They are not hurt and the perp was
escorted to the hospital by the police in critical condition. Good for
them.

One thing I didn't understand in that video though ... when he first
came around the counter banishing his gun the first thing the daughter
did was reach for the mouse on the counter while looking at the computer
screen. What was that all about?

PC operated cash register? Maybe she was trying to open it to give him money.

The ones IBM had after about 1990 were PC based. They just had a
different skin on them and different I/O.
The ones at Burger King and Wendy's I worked on were PS/2 M/30s
The display plugged into the printer port, the keyboard was just a
custom keyboard, the receipt printer was on the serial port etc. They
were running DOS 3.3
Newer ones run Windows XP. That is why there is still a hack out there
to get updates on XP by calling it a point of sale terminal. Some of
the old PCs I have around here were POS terminals at Judy's club.
Instead of upgrading them for new software (more memory) they threw
them away and bought new.