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This exact board is used in Skidata parking meters, the machines where you enter in your license plate or whatever and it gives you a price you pay.

It is, after all, just a computer with a very locked down Windows installation. But I thought it was interesting. Yes the monitor also belongs to it, it even has some kind of hinges on it.

Went from the PXE boot screen straight into a Samsung advertisement before switching to a white screen. Didn’t catch what happened after that as my train arrived.

I have acquired the keyboard from a Wincor Nixdorf Accounting Machine from a bank. How would I go about connecting it to a regular PC?

It has three ports: USB-B, USB-A and some 3-pin mystery port.

Plugging in only USB-A into my laptop does nothing. Only USB-B does nothing. Both together does nothing. It doesn’t even flash device manager or make any connection sound. And I’m not sure what the 3-pin port is for.

I’ve disassembled it to the PCB and it appears to have an ARM microprocessor for encryption, which is common for ATM or banking stuff. So I wouldn’t be able to use it without owning the machine itself.

Any ideas on how I’d hook it up to a regular PC, by perhaps replacing the board, or maybe I just hooked it up wrong? I unfortunately cannot find any documentation on it either, it’s a Wincor Nixdorf Vario Alpha Standard Keyboard manufactured by Dyna Systems.