The IBM 4683 was IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

's first PC

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

 based point of sale

Point of sale

Point of sale or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs...

 (POS) system. It was introduced in 1985. The system consists of a PC-based controller and thin client

Thin client

A thin client is a computer or a computer program which depends heavily on some other computer to fulfill its traditional computational roles. This stands in contrast to the traditional fat client, a computer designed to take on these roles by itself...

 based POS workstations, typically with a token ring network. The system requires an IBM AS/400 server to be in the network. The 4683 is still used today by some retailers. However the 4683 has been phased out by some retailers to its more modern successors, the IBM 4693 and the IBM 4694

IBM 4694

The IBM 4694 was IBM's PC based point of sale system, successor to the IBM 4683 and IBM 4693. Introduced in 1991, the 4694 became a flagship model for the company's SurePOS system. The system consists of a PC-based controller , and POS workstations—typically an IBM keyboard and monitor, or touch...

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See also

• Digital Research
  Digital Research
  Digital Research, Inc. was the company created by Dr. Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related products. It was the first large software company in the microcomputer world...
  
  
• FlexOS
  FlexOS
  FlexOS was a modular real-time multi-user multi-tasking operating system designed for computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail and financial markets...
  
  
• IBM 4680 OS
• IBM 4690 OS
  IBM 4690 OS
  IBM 4690 Operating System, sometimes shortened to 4690 OS or 4690, is IBM's specially designed Point of Sale operating system. 4690 is widely used by IBM's retail customers to drive retail systems running their own applications as well as IBM's Application Client Server Environment , Supermarket...
  
  
• IBM 4693
• IBM 4694
  IBM 4694
  The IBM 4694 was IBM's PC based point of sale system, successor to the IBM 4683 and IBM 4693. Introduced in 1991, the 4694 became a flagship model for the company's SurePOS system. The system consists of a PC-based controller , and POS workstations—typically an IBM keyboard and monitor, or touch...
  
  
• IBM 4695