NCR 7448 Workstation, Hardware User'S Manual

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1-12 Chapter 1: Product Overview
NCR Retail Specific Hardware
The Main Processor Board and the Personality Board contain logic that
provides support for the custom retail interface. The logic controls the following
features:
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Flash Disk Interface
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Dual Cash Drawer Support
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Magnetic Stripe Reader Interface
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Server Lock
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Key Lock
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Power Switch and Power LED (Green at operation, Orange at Standby)
MSR
The MSR interface supports a maximum of three tracks of magnetic stripe
information for support of ISO format cards and a maximum of two tracks of
magnetic stripe information for support of JIS-II & ISO 2 format cards. The
MSR interface controller is a memory-mapped device, which can reside at
system memory address CC000h.
Board BIOS
The Processor Board uses a Phoenix BIOS, which is stored in Flash ROM. The
Flash EEPROM also contains the Setup utility, Power-On self Tests (POST),
and APM 1.2. The board also supports system BIOS shadowing, allowing the
BIOS to execute from onboard write-protected DRAM.
Advanced Power Management
The Processor BIOS has support for both 1.1 and 1.2 Advanced Power
Management (APM). The version of APM drivers loaded in the operating
system by the user will determine what specification the BIOS will adhere too.
In either case the energy saving Stand-by mode can be initiated by a keyboard
hot key sequence or a time-out period set by the user.