Hamilton HTK need upgrade or CC won't work starting June 17

[Blanco]

Thought id share. Got a call from Hamilton today. My HTK is about 5 years old running windows 8. Apparently windows 8 is discontinued and the HTK's that have it need to either do a hard drive replacement for about $300 or buy a new controller for $2300 in order to accept credit cards past June 17. Date set by world pay. I ended up doing the new controller because it was the last pay station I had with a ingenico card reader (also discontinued). You need the new controller for the ID Tech readers. Didn't wake up today thinking I was going to spend 4K before noon but it surely never ends.

So if any of you guys got HTK with windows 8 it's only about two weeks until cut off. Give Hamilton a call if they haven't contacted you yet.

 

[OurTown]

Windows 10 was released 10 years ago. Why was Hamilton building HTKs with Windows 8 five years later?

 

[Blanco]

Windows 10 was released 10 years ago. Why was Hamilton building HTKs with Windows 8 five years later?

That’s a great question. I didn’t know that.

 

[Keno]

Windows 10 is also nearing EOL, hope they're not charging an arm and a leg for windows 8 to 10 upgrades

 

[Blanco]

Windows 10 is also nearing EOL, hope they're not charging an arm and a leg for windows 8 to 10 upgrades

It's $300 for hard drive upgrade or $2300 for controller upgrade.

Something about the "sockets" that process CC info is the reason for upgrade now that there finally shutting down 2 1/2 years after EOL. Beyond my pay grade.

This time I did the controller but I expect in few years to only have to do the hard drive. But who knows.