ncr corporation

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ncr corporation - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  NCR Corporation
  
     <company> Electronics company mainly active in the midrange
     server market.
  
     NCR was founded 1884 as National Cash Register Company.  It
     joint the computer industry in th 1950s.  In 1991 it was
     absorbed by AT&T (see dinosaurs mating), only to be spat
     out again in 1996.
  
     NCR mainframes of the 1960's are remembered by some for
     their hardware incompatibility with IBM mainframes: NCR
     punched round holes in their punched cards while IBM punched
     rectangular ones.  The codes and machines were not compatible
     and information could not be easily shared between NCR and IBM
     customers.
  
     (http://ncr.com/).
  
     (1997-03-10)