from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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)