Installing The Sonic Drive-In Operating System

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[MMadous]

Heya Bringus! I'm a POS technician and work on these workstation 6 units EVERY SINGLE DAY. Seeing you rip one apart and force it to do things it was never meant to do is like my personal catharsis. Thank you for this.

[ChuggaFan]

As a former Sonic Employee, I love that you went the extra mile to grab a Micros Oracle, because that's what the employees are looking at while you're telling them your order. The card reader on it is used for scanning employee id cards.

[superiorslush]

This is the most distinct sound effects per minute of video watched ive ever seen in my life. the mcdonalds beep, stone obelisk asmr, and gmod noises are tickling me pink.

[freakklomp]

their system crashing right as you're about to leave is just the cheese sauce on the pretzel.

[Scampist]

As someone who deals with Oracle on the daily, can't wait to see the pain.

[thisguy]

30:08 Apparently store #2104 is located at 1803 N. St. Joseph in
Gonzales, TX.

[TheCountOfMonteCarlo]

Dear God. What’s next, reprogramming a Redbox kiosk?

[faeranne]

So... 10 years ago I was wandering my local neighborhood, and noticed a large pile of electronics sitting outside my local Sonic. Pulling up, I looked it over, and thought "Hm, why is this e-waste just sitting here? Are they just gonna throw it away? Maybe I could ask the manager if I could have it?" So I walked up to the kiosk, pushed that brand new, shiny, red button, and asked if I could talk to a manager. Some 20 something kid wanders out and says he's the assistant manager, cause the regular manager was gone for the day. I point to the pile of e-waste and ask what the plan is. He says something along the lines of "I have no idea, but if you can make it go away, please do." Well, I have a minivan and too much time, so I agree, and make the pile vanish... into my garage. This wasn't stall screens, but the actual server hardware that ran on-site, along with kitchen screens and button pads, among other things. The real guts of the operation. The 10.21.4.1 the stall spoke to.

And a year later I sold the server along with most of the components for about $500. Never managed to image the SAS drives, never collected any data on how it worked. Only thing I have left are the old Serial cards the server used, since they were kinda cool and worked with something else I was toying with.

I had the final keys in my hands years ago, and let them slip right through.

I have failed the world.

PS: I went to another sonic to see if I could get more e-waste, since they all were replacing their hardware, and it turns out that kid was *not* supposed to give that to me. I had no idea at the time, but he probably got fired over that... ooops.

[justicesportsman]

I used to be IT for restaurants and clubs in Vegas. It’s fun seeing someone discover these POS terminals for the first time. They are very interesting machines. Thanks for the entertainment!😊

[werlynakadera]

I’m a Sonic employee but I work in the kitchen so I’m not much help. If you ever need to program a bacon super or a large order of tots I’m here.

[konm]

next time he'll be like "Installing SteamOS on an Apple Vision Pro's battery pack"

[Sasasala]

omfg the camera panning to the CART SHOWING THE BUTTON FOR 162 DOLLARS IS GOLD!

[massgrave_]

I have experience with maintaining POS systems like this for retail/restaurant businesses (although not for Sonic):
CD1 & CD2 refer to Cash Drawer 1 & Cash Drawer 2. These and the 12V Out would all be sent to a splitter / Y-cable that would provide both power and trigger signal to the cash drawer(s).
The COM ports were typically reserved for thermal printers for printing receipts or for sending order tickets to the printers in the kitchen.
Normal USB ports were typically used for barcode scanners for coupons among other random peripherals like base stations for wireless pagers.
We didn't use the USB5 port but the "Customer Display" port was connected to an auxiliary front-facing display so the customer would see their order and total as the items were being entered on the main display.

[Gansekommando]

My wife used to work at sonic back in high school and I showed her this video and I have never seen her more interested in a tech video.

[Sprinkleycakes]

As an IT professional who started her journey as the store stock repair tech at Micro Center…who now works at an org where most of my decisions have already been made for me…the unbridled joy I feel watching you cobble together this beautiful monster cannot be overstated. ❤

[Claymore]

"We can just take the install.wim file from inside of a Windows 7 installer and move it over to the 'sources' folder on a Windows **8** installer [and later a Windows 10 installer]!"

Bringus, I thought you were mad when you built the cs_office computer tower and ran games on it, but this is an entirely new level of cursed, janky wizardry. I salute you, sir.

[kamajamalaks]

I love how in every video like this he starts with a very clean and nice device/computer and then finishes the video with basically a dead corpse disassembled on the table with bringus performing some insane necromancy on it

[wetw-ir--e----d]

The internal/external connections for speakers and rj45 for card reader is so technicians that travel to support these things out in the field can easily swap failing hardware

[beck]

The reason the MicrOS Oracle had so many external connectors on the internals, you've gotta think about application. These were devices handled all day 24/7 and were liable to break. Plug and play replacement parts made things a lot easier for the Techs replacing it

[DimNussens]

I genuinely laughed out loud at "What a POS" and I hold you responsible for getting my niece riled up, sir. That pun was so bad that I'm mad I didn't make it first.