Pitney Bowes-Alpex SPICE system.

I stumbled across a video featuring the Pitney Bowes-Alpex SPICE system, complete with super early barcode scanning. The Pitney Bowes-Alpex joint venture was fairly short lived, lasting from 1970 until late 1973. SPICE stands for “Sales Point Information Computing Equipment”. Notice the Nixie-tube display. Also, the keypad was arranged in 2×5 vertical arrangement instead of […]