NCR History Timeline
- 1884 - John H. Patterson founded the National Cash Register Company, maker of the first mechanical cash registers.
- 1894 - NCR opened one of the first sales training schools.
- 1906 - Charles F. Kettering designed the first cash register powered by an electric motor.
- 1914 - NCR developed one of the first automated credit systems.
- 1926 - NCR became publicly owned.
- 1952 - NCR acquired Computer Research Corporation (CRC), of Hawthorne, California, which produced a line of digital computers with applications in aviation.
- 1953 - NCR established the Electronics Division to continue to pursue electronic applications for business machines.
- 1957 - NCR announced first fully transistorized business computer, the NCR 304.
- 1968 - NCR's John L. Janning invented liquid crystal displays (LCD).
- 1974 - Company changed its name to NCR Corporation.
- 1974 - NCR commercialized first bar code scanners.
- 1982 - The first NCR Tower supermicrocomputer system was launched, establishing NCR as a pioneer in bringing industry standards and open systems architecture to the computer market.
- 1991 - NCR acquired by AT&T.
- 1991 - NCR purchased Teradata Corporation, acquiring its advanced and unique commercial parallel processing technology. NCR Teradata becomes the world's most proven and powerful database for data warehousing.
- 1994 - NCR name changed to AT&T Global Information Solutions (GIS).
- 1995 - AT&T announced spin-off of AT&T GIS by the end of 1996.
- 1996 - AT&T GIS changed its name back to NCR Corporation in anticipation of being spun-off to AT&T shareholders by January 1997, as an independent, publicly-traded company.
- 1997 - Signaling its evolution from a hardware-only company to a full solutions provider, NCR purchased Compris Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of store automation and management software for the food-service industry, and Dataworks, a company that develops check-processing software.
- 1998 - NCR finalized the transfer and sale of their computer hardware manufacturing assets to Solectron, confirming NCR's commitment to concentrate on the market-differentiated software and services components of their solutions portfolios.
- 2000 - NCR acquired CRM provider Ceres Integrated Solutions and services company 4Front Technologies, deepening NCR's solutions offerings in key markets.
- 2003 - NCR granted patent for signature capture.
- 2005 - Following the successful 2004 acquisition of travel self-service leader Kinetics, NCR further strengthens its self-service portfolio by acquiring Galvanon, a leading provider of solutions for the health care industry.
- 2007 - NCR separated into two companies through the spin-off of the Teradata Data Warehousing business.
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