NCR Corporation


NCR Corporation

(company)Electronics company mainly active in the midrangeserver market.

NCR was founded 1884 as National Cash Register Company. Itjoint the computer industry in th 1950s. In 1991 it wasabsorbed by AT&T (see dinosaurs mating), only to be spatout again in 1996.

NCR mainframes of the 1960's are remembered by some fortheir hardware incompatibility with IBM mainframes: NCRpunched round holes in their punched cards while IBM punchedrectangular ones. The codes and machines were not compatibleand information could not be easily shared between NCR and IBMcustomers.

http://ncr.com/.