(01 Feb 2022, 7:15 am)cainebj wrote Definitely no longer used at DCC, though it looks an interesting piece of kit. Timetables nowadays are generated on a much more modern, cloud based software package.

The Ticketer machines is an interesting one though. Generation 1 Ticketer machines used by many North East independent operators do indeed use Windows CE, often in the menus when you press on a button, or click the date/time on the bottom corner to load the pop up clock, it quickly flashes up the traditional Windows cursor. Newer generation machines, like those used by Arriva and Go North East, run an Android OS but still the same Ticketer software/app. The Android OS versions are much quicker at loading up and are less temperamental.

Some Ticketer machines also have the phase-out of 3G connectivity to deal with, reported in RouteOne:
https://www.route-one.net/features/prepa...r-advises/

I always assumed that the ones Arriva currently use are Windows CE/Embedded compact machine, based on this and last year when a Driver kindly showed me his display when for some reason my new annual ticket hadn't been "pushed" to by Corporate Connect Card. A bit of a give away that it was possibly Windows CE was the Tahoma font used for the UI. Windows CE was always a temperamental beast, I had a few handled PCs with various versions installed, it was always sluggish regardless of the CPU and RAM.

Speaking of Android, which uses the Linux kernel, I remember the scrolling screens fitted to the caches that were used on the Middlesbrough-Darlington X66 sometimes displaying the fact they (or the control software) ran a IIRC Linux 2.6 kernel.