It may even have part of your credit card number stored on-gadget.

Redboxs owners, Chicken Soup for the Soul, declared bankruptcy in July.

Since then, the now-defunctkiosks have become collectors itemsfor anybody who wants a piece of physical media history.

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She told us that its likely the system only stored the last month of transaction logs.

The machines were apparently running on Windows 7, an OS thats beenofficially defunctsince 2020.

Turing heavily criticized Redboxs code as enterprise as fuck.

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One useful thing about the machines is that theycan run Doomjust fine since theyre all on Windows 7.

News from the future, delivered to your present.

Why isn’t that possible?

The top of a Redbox movie kiosk.

But be warned: the energy costs are steep.

Redbox Is Now Deadbox

Say so long to those red kiosks outside of the convenience store.

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