Q: sometimes when you go to the store and at the checkout you see that the monitor that they are using is only 5 or 6 inch's but looks like a normal crt monitor but smaller what are the mini monitors called
A: Hi I don't think there is a special name given to them, but the whole system (barcode scanner, keyboard, screen etc) is known as EPOS (Electronic Point of Sales). You can read more about EPOS here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale HTH, Deep