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  2. Multi-Drop Bus / Internal Communication Protocol - Wikipedia

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    MDB originated as a proprietary bus used by CoinCo for their coin-acceptors in the late 1980s and was deployed in high volume in vending machines for Coca-Cola.Coke forced CoinCo to open-source it in 1992 to increase competition, and NAMA released the first version of the standard in 1995, allowing other vendors to compete for the coin-acceptor portion of the vending machines (CoinCo and Mars ...

  3. MSC Industrial Direct - Wikipedia

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    MSC was founded in 1941 as Sid Tool, Inc., by Sidney Jacobson, in New York's Little Italy. It originally sold cutting tools and accessories to New York City machine shops. [3] The company later moved its headquarters to Plainview, New York.

  4. Cantaloupe, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Cantaloupe, Inc., previously known as USA Technologies Inc., is an American company known for its work with ePort cashless acceptance technology running on its patented ePort Connect service, a PCI compliant services. ePort Connect wirelessly facilitates electronic payment options to consumers with credit, debit, or NFC enabled electronic wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay while providing ...

  5. DEX (protocol) - Wikipedia

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    DEX (data exchange) is a format for collecting audit and event data from vending machines. DEX was introduced in the late 1980s by bottlers who provided product to vending machines. It was intended to improve auditing of vending machines, simplify inventory management. DEX records cash in/out, product movement and other audit data.

  6. Multidrop bus - Wikipedia

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    The ccTalk multidrop bus protocol uses an 8 bit TTL-level asynchronous serial protocol.It uses address randomization to allow multiple similar devices on the bus (after randomisation the devices can be distinguished by their serial number). ccTalk was developed by CoinControls, but is used by multiple vendors.

  7. Automated retail - Wikipedia

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    A Best Buy Express vending machine by Zoom Systems at an airport terminal, stocked with electronics. Automated retail is the category of self-service, standalone kiosks that operate as fully automatic retail stores through the use of software integrations to replace the traditional retail services inside in a traditional retail store.

  8. Crane Payment Innovations - Wikipedia

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    Crane Merchandising Systems was founded in 1926 by B. E. Fry, a St. Louis businessman, as the "National Sales Machine Company. [citation needed]" Fry invented a more foolproof vending machine that would only accept coins, unlike older machines, such as the "Smoketeria", a cigarette vending machine, which would accept things such as flat buttons and cardboard discs.

  9. Vending machine - Wikipedia

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    A snack food vending machine in Hong Kong A Coca-Cola-branded vending machine in a hospital in La Louvière, Belgium. Various types of food and snack vending machines exist in the world. Food vending machines that provide shelf-stable foods such as chips, cookies, cakes, and other such snacks are common.