The portable inventory system for this store is indeed a suitcase-mounted computer running DOS attached to an Epson dot-matrix printer with tractor-feed paper.
They can’t upgrade to letter-quality?
And does it run WordPerfect 3.1?
Counting Lycra with DOS
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