Comments on: YOUR business will benefit with NCR Data Processing! http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/19/your-business-will-benefit-with-ncr-data-processing/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:04:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paco Jones Menda http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/19/your-business-will-benefit-with-ncr-data-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-1069487 Paco Jones Menda Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:52:58 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7628#comment-1069487 This is a NCR-390; the father of the NCR-500. This is a NCR-390; the father of the NCR-500.

]]> By: Toronto http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/19/your-business-will-benefit-with-ncr-data-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-1067449 Toronto Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:57:21 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7628#comment-1067449 The console looks very similar to the NCR-500 series machines. They had a third input/output option - "Mag ledger cards" - which were basically 11x17" manila cars with 4 strips of magnetic tape glued to the back. As you typed information on the cards, it was recorded magnetically as well as printed on the front. The "cash register" keyboard above the more conventional typewriter keyboard was for inputing code. I programmed one around 1974-76. It was an antique then, but an interesting one. The console looks very similar to the NCR-500 series machines. They had a third input/output option – “Mag ledger cards” – which were basically 11×17″ manila cars with 4 strips of magnetic tape glued to the back. As you typed information on the cards, it was recorded magnetically as well as printed on the front.

The “cash register” keyboard above the more conventional typewriter keyboard was for inputing code.

I programmed one around 1974-76. It was an antique then, but an interesting one.

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