The Commodore 64 should be on every computer enthusiast's mind, as it is technically the single best-selling computer model in history. A few of them are still in use in Indiana donut shops, indicating that the old dog still has some (presumably sticky) life left in it. [Apparently the staff at Hilligos Bakery is using a Commodore 64-based cash register system to process orders. Commenters pointed out that the last photo of the cash register was taken in 2021, so Tom's Hardware decided to give them a call.

Our American friends love to point and laugh at British-isms, so we are well aware that the doughnut spelling looks ridiculous, and we will duly point out that doughnuts is better. However, according to the hardware team, as a tea-drinking, yellow-toothed Brit, doughnut is right.

Anyway, it is truly impressive that these 42-year-old machines are still trucking along in front of a busy bakery, covered in sugar, flour, and probably a fair amount of sweat.

The store has been in business since 1974, but the first Commodore 64 was not released until 1982. That means there was at least an eight-year gap in time when the bakery was using something else to process transactions, perhaps a Charles Babbage differential engine or an Antikythera mechanism.

Even at the time of its release, the Commodore 64 was not known to be particularly powerful: with a 1.023 MHz or 0.985 MHz CPU, 64 KB RAM (hence the name), and a display resolution of 320 x 200, the machine is now a machine that hobbyists The kind of machine that hobbyists would go out of their way to acquire and repurpose.

After all, it is a piece of history, and thus has become a popular choice among those looking for ideas for retro-based projects.

Like this man who transformed a theremin into a theremin and later connected the two to create an accordion. Or the ambitious project to put one of them to AI image generation duties, even though most of them have outlived their usefulness as museum pieces.

The C64 lives on and seems to be an important piece of infrastructure that keeps the small town of Brownsburg supplied with tasty treats. My local bakery uses an iPad-based system that is constantly broken. So maybe it makes sense to rely on the old-fashioned computer as the mainstay to ensure that freshly baked bread is always available.