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Post tronic

08.02.2010
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Post tronic From 1957 to 1970, one of the main products of NCR. Developed from the Class 2000, with a magnetic stripe reader and writer and a couple of tapes. This machine was a major technological leap for all banking institutions. Eliminated use two books, which generated many errors. The magnetic recorder developed by NCR reading the previous balance, the customer number and position online. This technology had corrected many mistakes. After entering the changes, the writing machine in the machine in the “Booking card and also recorded on the magnetic stripe on the back of this card. At the same time it was recorded on tape. At the end of the day the tape was sent to the central computer for subsequent processes, and changes were recorded in the accounts. Through all this, NCR won significant market share in the banking sector.Post Tronic When developed, most of the company was against it, thought it would be quickly obsolete by computers. But when Owen B. Gardner, head of sales department cash registers and later vice president taught the machine to the banking industry, were so enthusiastic that Stanley Allyn, CEO, reagent development machine Tronic Post. It was a good decision considering that the machine was still active in several banking institutions until the late 70s. Sell 4,000 machines in 1959, 6000 in 1960 for those years Tronic Post had been installed in 50 states in U.S. and 20 countries, with a total value of 100 million. Thanks to this success NCR had money to invest in the development of computers. The experience gained by Tronic Post was used in developing the NCR computer 390.