> It's a floor wax *and* a salad dressing!

Well... I hate salad anyway, so... ;-)

> Seriously, that's not at all uncommon in the world of credit card 
> terminals. You would rather buy 20 $25 serial boxes than replace 20 $300 
> credit card terminals when you go to a networked cash register thingie.

Subtle nit-pick, but... We're buying a brand new system, not augmenting 
an existing one. If we were augmenting an existing one, then yeah, I can 
see how just fitting a little extra hardware is clearly the 
cost-effective option. I'm not sure how that works when you're buying 
something completely brand-new, and it's already partially kludged so 
the manufacturers don't have to redesign it... What's your opinion?

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