Claims
- 1. In or for a ticket printer for printing transportation tickets, a control system comprising:
- a motherboard having a plurality of slots;
- control means for said printer, said control means being mounted on a board plugged into one of said slots; and
- a plurality of dual process personal computers, each being mounted on a board and plugged into a respective one of said slots, and each of said plurality of dual process personal computers being connected to send data to said control means and also being adapted to perform general computing tasks.
- 2. A control system as in claim 1 including a keyboard, disk drive, and monitor for input/output and storage functions in connection with one of said plurality of dual process personal computers.
- 3. A control system as in claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of dual process personal computers comprises means for selectively adapting said dual process personal computer for operation in one of a stand-alone mode of operation and a bus mode of operation.
Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 08/235,497, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,599,117 filed Apr. 29, 1994, which is a division of application Ser. No. 07/934,361, filed Aug. 25, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,309,176, granted May 3, 1994.
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Divisions (2)
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235497 |
Apr 1994 |
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934361 |
Aug 1992 |
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