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Cash Machines Both
Cash Registers and Cash Machines are included in this group. Burroughs
first built a “cash machine” to leverage their successful adding machines
and to compete with the vastly more expensive cash registers, most often built
by National Cash Register Company. The cash
machines were a low-cost alternative to the cash register and were most often
used in small stores and shops. A common problem with the cash machine was money getting stuck in the back of the cash drawer mechanism. It was located in a place that the operator generally did not know how to get to. A standing order to all Burroughs Field Engineers was to always first check this location with the operator present, before starting to make repairs on the machine. Many clerks were unfairly accused of being short on their register for the day, only later to be vindicated (sometimes too late) by the cash being found in the back of the drawer. Burroughs
did finally build a true cash register; but the success of the machine was
limited by the strong market dominance of National Cash Register Company and others.
Production of the true cash register machines stopped at the start of WWII, and
like the Burroughs Typewriter, was not resumed after the war. The cash machine, however, continued to be produced through the 1979s. Cash
Machines (Class 8, 9, 10, and
Series P) – Full keyboard machines
mounted on a Burroughs cash drawer Date range -- 1931-1970 Original Price -- $300 Today’s Value -- $100-$300
Hand-operated, wide till, Cash Machine Cash
Registers – (Types 100, 200, 300) Actual registers like NCR type machines. Type 100 is
the basic Cash Register, Type 200 are the same as the Type 100 with the addition
of a mechanism to print on a tally role. Type 300 was the same as the 200 plus
had the capability to print a customer receipt. Date range -- 1935-1942 Original price -- $? Today’s
Value -- $200-$400
Model 300, Cash Register |
