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« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2015, 21:09:59 »
Where did you find the return single ticket offeted on the app?

Did you reverse the reverse the departure/arrival stations and buy a second time? How easy would that be on a TVM▸ (Ticket Vending Machine)?
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« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2015, 21:16:34 »
Interesting that there is free software that runs on a mobile phone costing a few hundred pounds at most that can do what most people want, but the software to run on ^30k of heavy fixed TVM▸ (Ticket Vending Machine) would cost a fortune!

Can someone explain that to me?

I suspect the TVM has a fairly standard computer in it running a standard operating system such as Linux or Windows. Is that what makes it really difficult?
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« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2015, 21:47:09 »
A couple of years ago I did see a TVM▸ (Ticket Vending Machine) showing a Windows XP start up screen.
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« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2015, 22:46:30 »
Quote from: ChrisB on January 06, 2015, 21:09:59
Where did you find the return single ticket offeted on the app?

Did you reverse the reverse the departure/arrival stations and buy a second time? How easy would that be on a TVM▸ (Ticket Vending Machine)?

The app offered two options, a return and two singles. It must have remembered in the settings that I had a network railcard as well as when I printed the tickets at MDW this morning the return leg was marked "NSE▸ (Network South East)", which I hadn't appreciated at the time of booking. Luckily I still had a week left on the railcard!
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« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2015, 11:11:21 »
Quote from: ellendune on January 06, 2015, 21:16:34
Interesting that there is free software that runs on a mobile phone costing a few hundred pounds at most that can do what most people want, but the software to run on ^30k of heavy fixed TVM▸ (Ticket Vending Machine) would cost a fortune!

Can someone explain that to me?

Think of the inputs of variables that the app uses. Currently on the TVM, you simply tell it where you want to go. The TVM has far more simple software.
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« Reply #20 on: January 08, 2015, 12:43:56 »
The story of "it works why change it?" and now it's alarmingly behind and no one remembers how it works and how to change it. Or, if it's still XP no one will come running to help anymore (end of life).
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« Reply #21 on: January 08, 2015, 13:15:35 »
It is still XP....according to the crash screen I occasionally see
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