silver be merged into this article . discuss proposed since april 2016 . ncr corporation latest variant of the logo designed by saul bass in 1996 type public traded as nyse ncr industry software computer hardware electronics founded dayton ohio 1884 incorporation 1900 1 headquarters gwinnett county georgia united states 2 key people bill nuti chairman president & ceo john h. patterson founder products self service kiosks point of sale automated teller machines retail store automation services revenue 6.37 billion 2015 3 operating income 135 million 2015 3 net income 178 million 2015 3 total assets us 7.64 billion 2015 3 total equity 720 million 2015 3 number of employees 30 200 2015 website www.ncr.com the ncr corporation abbrev . national cash register is an american computer hardware software and electronics company that makes self service kiosks point of sale terminals automated teller machines check processing systems barcode scanners and business consumables . they also provide it maintenance support services . 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 . currently the headquarters are in unincorporated gwinnett county georgia near duluth and alpharetta georgia . 4 5 with a future headquarters planned for the end of 2016 at technology square adjacent to georgia institute of technology located in atlanta georgia ncr was founded in 1884 and acquired by at & t in 1991 . a restructuring of at & t in 1996 led to ncr s re establishment on 1 january 1997 as a separate company and involved the spin off of lucent technologies from at & t. 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 . contents 1 history 1.1 early years 1.2 american selling force 1.3 expansion 1.4 post war 1.5 small computers 1.5.1 ncr 5xxx series 1.5.2 ncr 66xx series 1.5.3 ncr self serv 20 & 30 series 1.6 at & t 1.7 independence 1.8 under bill nuti s management 2 products and services 2.1 hardware 2.2 services 2.3 obsolete 3 senior management 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit early years edit antique three column full keyboard cash register old national cash register on display at the museo de la secretar a de hacienda y cr dito p blico in mexico city the company began as the national manufacturing company of dayton ohio which was established to manufacture and sell the first mechanical cash register invented in 1879 by drew kacer . in 1884 the company and patents were bought by john henry patterson and his brother frank jefferson patterson and the firm was renamed the national cash register company . patterson formed ncr into one of the first modern american companies introducing new aggressive sales methods and business techniques . he established the first sales training school in 1893 and introduced a comprehensive social welfare program for his factory workers . other significant figures in the early history of the company were charles f. kettering thomas j. watson sr. and edward a. deeds . deeds and kettering went on to found dayton engineering laboratories company which later became delco products division of general motors . watson eventually worked his way up to general sales manager . at an uninspiring sales meeting watson interrupted saying the trouble with every one of us is that we don t think enough . we don t get paid for working with our feet we get paid for working with our heads . watson then wrote think on the easel . 6 signs with this motto were erected in factory buildings sales offices and club rooms during the mid 1890s . think later became a widely known symbol of ibm . patterson fired watson in 1914 . 7 kettering designed the first cash register powered by an electric motor in 1906 . within a few years he developed the class 1000 register which was in production for 40 years and the o.k. telephone credit authorization system for verifying credit in department stores . citation needed american selling force edit when john h. patterson and his brother took over the company cash registers were expensive 50 usd and only about a dozen of ritty s incorruptible cashier machines were in use . there was little demand for the expensive device but patterson believed the product would sell once shopkeepers understood it would drastically decrease theft by salesclerks . he created a sales force called the american selling force which worked on commissions and followed a standard sales script the n.c.r. primer . the philosophy was to sell a business function rather than just a piece of machinery . sale demonstrations were set up in hotels away from the distractions of the buyer s business depicting a store interior complete with real merchandise and real cash . the sale prospect was described as the p.p. or probable purchaser . once initial objections were swept aside and the p.p. admitted to internal theft losses the product was demonstrated along with large business charts and diagrams . the deal was sealed with a 25 cent cigar . 8 expansion edit ncr expanded quickly and became multi national in 1888 . between 1893 and 1906 it acquired a number of smaller cash register companies . 9 by 1911 it had sold one million machines and grown to almost 6 000 employees . combined with rigorous legal attacks patterson s methods enabled the company to fight off bankrupt or buy out over 80 of its early competitors and achieve control of 95 % of the u.s. market . in 1912 the company was found guilty of violating the sherman antitrust act . patterson deeds watson and 25 other ncr executives and managers were convicted for illegal anti competitive sales practices and were sentenced to one year of imprisonment . their convictions were unpopular with the public due to the efforts of patterson and watson to help those affected by the dayton ohio floods of 1913 but efforts to have them pardoned by president woodrow wilson were unsuccessful . however their convictions were overturned on appeal in 1915 on the grounds that important defense evidence should have been admitted . wwii ncr poster two million units were sold by 1922 the year john patterson died . in 1925 the company went public with an issue of 55 million in stock at that time the largest public offering in united states history . during world war i the company manufactured shell fuzes and aircraft instrumentation and during world war ii built aero engines bomb sights and code breaking machines including the american bombe designed by joseph desch . post war edit computer ncr 304 building on its wartime experience with secret communication systems high speed counters and cryptanalytic equipment 10 ncr became a major post war force in developing new computing and communications technology . in 1953 chemists barrett k. green and lowell schleicher of ncr in dayton submitted a patent pressure responsive record materials for a carbonless copy paper . this became us patent 2 730 457 and was commercialized as ncr paper . in february 1953 the company acquired the computer research corporation crc 11 after which it created a specialized electronics division . 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 . also in the 1950s ncr introduced micr magnetic ink character recognition 12 and the ncr 3100 accounting machines . 13 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 . the ncr 390 and 500 computers were also offered to customers who did not need the full power of the 315 . the ncr 390 accepted four types of input magnetic ledger cards punched cards punched tape and keyboard entry with a tape read speed of 400 characters a second . 13 the company s first all integrated circuit computer was the century 100 of 1968 . the century 200 was added in 1970 . the line was extended through the century 300 . 14 the century series was followed by the criterion series in 1976 ncr s first virtual machine system . during this period ncr also produced the 605 minicomputer for in house use . it was the compute engine for the 399 and 499 accounting machines several generations of in store and in bank controllers and the 82xx 90xx imos cobol systems . the 605 also powered peripheral controllers including the 658 disk subsystem and the 721 communications processor . 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 . the company adopted the name ncr corporation in 1974 . small computers edit in 1982 ncr became involved in open systems architecture . 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 . these 5000 series systems were based on motorola 68k cpus and supported ncr s proprietary transaction processing system tmx which was mainly used by financial institutions . this product line also saw the first time ncr had offered its products through other than its own direct sales channels since the early 1900s . formally added to its company structure in march 1984 ncr s oem system s division spearheaded the design sales revenue and market awareness and acceptance of ncr s tower family . part of the cause of this success was the decision by ncr senior management to hire reseller industry veterans for key positions within the fledgling operation and have that unit work with but not answerable to ncr s traditional management structure . the industry shift from minicomputers brought personnel with minicomputer and reseller backgrounds such as the division head dan kiegler ex datapoint marketing marketing manager and later director of field sales dave lang ex dec reseller marketing director and salesperson and other critical contributors at corporate levels ; who then hired a complementary field sales organization primarily made up of proven people from dec wang and other faltering minicomputer firms . ncr office buildings in augsburg germany in the 1980s ncr sold various pc compatible at class computers like the small ncr 3390 called an intelligent terminal . they proposed a customized version of ms dos named ncr dos which for example offered support for switching the cpu between 6 8 or 10 mhz speeds . the computers featured an improved cga adapter the nga which had a 640 400 text mode more suitable for business uses than the original 640 200 mode with characters drawn using single pixel wide lines giving an appearance similar to that of classic ibm 3270 terminals . the additional four color 640 400 graphical mode was identical to cga s 320 200 mode from a programming point of view . ncr also manufactured two proprietary series of mini to midrange computers i series 9010 idps operating system 9020 and 9100 imos operating system 9040 and 9050 irx operating system 9200 9300 9300 ip 9400 9400ip 9500 system 1000 models 35 55 65 75 itx operating system . these were i interactive computers allowing tty terminals to be connected . later models supported all industry standard communication protocols . v series 8500 vrx operating system and 9800 vrx e operating system . these were v series comparable to mainframes supporting page mode terminals . the hardware did have similarities with the i