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Watson had a newly-acquired NCR cash register in his butcher shop, for which he had to arrange transfer of the installment payments to the new owner of the butcher shop.
Undercutting the competition, for he had no need to make a profit ( having effectively limitless funds from NCR ), he gradually monopolized the business ; until he was able to buy out the competitors, which he promptly did.
NCR had been based in Dayton, Ohio, starting in 1884, but in June 2009, the company sold most of the Dayton properties and moved its headquarters to Metro Atlanta.
By 1986 the number of mainframe makers had dropped from 8 ( IBM and the " seven dwarfs ") to 6 ( IBM and the " BUNCH ") to 4: IBM, Unisys, NCR, and Control Data Corporation.
:... dvantages of vertical integration had motivated ATT's earlier acquisition of NCR are outweighed by its costs and disadvantages .... o varying degrees, many of the actual and potential customers of Lucent and NCR are or will be competitors of AT & T's communications services businesses.
Founded in the 1880s, Burroughs was the oldest continuously operating entity in computing, but by the late 1950s its computing equipment was still limited to electromechanical accounting machines such as the Sensimatic ; as such it had nothing to compete with its traditional rivals IBM and NCR who had started to produce larger-scale computers, or with recently-founded Univac.
By 1990 the group had expanded to 21 members: in addition to the original five, Philips and Nokia from Europe ; AT & T, Digital, Unisys, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NCR, Sun Microsystems, Prime Computer, Apollo Computer from North America ; Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC from Japan ; plus the Open Software Foundation and Unix International.
NCR had just developed and suddenly canceled its Motorola 88000-based systems, and then started the NCR 3000 series, developed using Intel x86 microprocessors.
At the University of Cincinnati when NCR needed help, Dham was the only student in his class who had worked longest in semi conductors.
SL & NCR locomotives had names, but were not numbered.
Before that, the group had won the NCR championship, best vocalist and best lead-guitarist awards.

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In four years Watson made Rochester effectively an NCR monopoly by using the technique of knocking the main competitor, Hallwood, out of business, sometimes resorting to sabotage of the competitors machines.
National Cash Register or NCR ( Dayton Ohio ) made cash registers around 1970 that would punch paper tape.
The National Capital Region ( NCR ) is made up of the capital, Ottawa, and neighbouring Gatineau which is located across the Ottawa River.
" WinPad was delayed due to price and performance issues, before being scrapped in early 1995 due to touchscreen driver problems relating to WriteTouch technology, made by NCR Microelectronic Products.
This division made punched card readers and 9-track magnetic tape drives for both parent companies ( CDC and NCR ).

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* There was also the NCR / 32 ACCEL RISC architecture and its NCR / 32-000 CPU, used in ( among others ) computers from Celerity Computing.
However, due to the 68010's small speed boost over the 68000 and its support for virtual memory it can be found in a number of smaller Unix systems, both with the 68451 MMU ( in the Torch Triple X ), and with a custom MMU ( such as the Sun-2 Workstation, AT & T UNIX PC, the NCR Tower XP and early HP9000s like the Model 300 and 310 ) and various research machines.
Metropolitan Manila (), the National Capital Region ( NCR ) (), or simply Metro Manila, is the metropolitan region encompassing the City of Manila and its surrounding areas in the Philippines.
NCR is the only AT & T spin-off company that has retained its original name – all the others have either been purchased or renamed following subsequent mergers.
Building on its wartime experience with secret communication systems, high speed counters, and cryptanalytic equipment, NCR became a major post-war force in developing new computing and communications technology.
In 1956, NCR introduced its first electronic device, the Class 29 Post-Tronic, a bank machine using magnetic stripe technology.
With GE the company manufactured its first transistor-based computer in 1957, the NCR 304.
For a while, starting in 1994, the subsidiary was renamed AT & T Global Information Solutions, but in 1995, AT & T decided to spin off the company, and in 1996, changed its name back to NCR in preparation for the spin-off.
NCR believes that its efforts to target the communications industry have been hindered by the reluctance of AT & T's communications services competitors to make purchases from an AT & T subsidiary.
In 1998, NCR sold its computer hardware manufacturing assets to Solectron and ceased to produce general-purpose computer systems, focusing instead on the retail and financial industries.
On January 8, 2007, NCR announced its intention to separate into two independent companies by spinning off Teradata to shareholders.
On January 11, 2007, NCR announced plans to restructure its entire ATM manufacturing operations, with 650 jobs at its Dundee plant being cut A further 450 jobs were cut in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
NCR extended its self-service portfolio into the digital media market with the January
NCR could now supplement its existing suite of technology offerings with the industry's first market-proven in-store video customer support solution.
On June 2, 2009, NCR announced a plan to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dayton, OH to Duluth, GA.
* NCR Corporation has its headquarters in unincorporated Gwinnett County, near Duluth.
In the 1970s, after GE sold its computer business to Honeywell and RCA sold its to Univac, the analogy to the seven dwarfs became less apt and the remaining small firms became known as the " BUNCH " ( Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell ).

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The group of manufacturers was first known as " IBM and the Seven Dwarfs ": IBM, Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, General Electric and RCA.
** " No carbon required " paper, a carbonless copy paper first produced by NCR Corporation
Patterson formed NCR into one of the first modern American companies, introducing new, aggressive sales methods and business techniques.
In 1962, NCR introduced the NCR-315 Electronic Data Processing System which included the CRAM storage device, the first automated mass storage alternative to magnetic tape libraries accessed manually by computer operators.
Its first such system was the UNIX-powered TOWER 16 / 32, the success of which ( approximately 100, 000 were sold ) established NCR as a pioneer in bringing industry standards and open systems architecture to the computer market.
Bill Nuti would continue his role as president and CEO of NCR, while Teradata Senior VP Mike Koehler would assume leadership of Teradata .. On 1 October 2007, NCR Corporation and Teradata jointly announced the Teradata business unit spin-off was complete, with Michael Koehler as the first CEO of Teradata.
OPOS ( OLE for POS ) was the first commonly adopted standard and was created by Microsoft, NCR Corporation, Epson and Fujitsu-ICL.
JavaPOS was developed by Sun Microsystems, IBM, and NCR Corporation in 1997 and first released in 1999.
CRAM, or Card Random Access Memory, model 353-1, was a data storage device invented by NCR, which first appeared on their model NCR-315 mainframe computer in 1962.
* John Henry Patterson ( NCR owner ) ( 1844 – 1922 ), founder and first owner of the National Cash Register Company
Based in Gurgaon ( which, though in the state of Haryana is considered a part of the National Capital Region of Delhi ), GKA is the first and so far only civil-society-led community radio station in Delhi NCR.
* John Henry Patterson ( NCR owner ) ( 1844 – 1922 ), founder and first owner of the National Cash Register Company
Burroughs was not the first manufacturer to distribute source code and indeed was a late entry to electronic computing ( compared to its traditional rivals NCR, IBM, and Univac ) but the situation outlined in the previous paragraph presages the current computing culture where OSS dominates.
The NCR 304, introduced in 1957, was National Cash Register ( NCR )' s first transistor-based computer.
His first public performance was at an NCR ( formerly a large factory and major employer in Dundee ) Christmas party in the 1950s.
During a presentation of his work on Non-Volatile Memory for the NCR Microelectronics at an IEEE workshop in Monterey California, he was approached by Intel and joined the company in 1979 where he worked with the Non Volatile Memory team and was one of the co-inventors of Intel ’ s first flash memory ( ETOX ).
There he oversaw the electrification of the NCR factories and built its first electric generating station.

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