A tent camp is set up in Sugar Camp at Dayton, Ohio (the former seat of NCR) to train sales persons, who call it “Canvas University.”

Charles F. Kettering designs the first cash register powered by an electric motor. Within a few years, he will develop the Class 1000 register which will be in production for 40 years. Kettering also develops the O. K. Telephone Credit Authorization system for verifying credit in department stores.

The Class 500 was the most complex and ornate register manufactured by NCR during this time period. It could keep track of up to nine separate totals, which meant that it could be used by nine different clerks or keep track of nine separate departments at the same time. The 1909 National Cash Register Catalog describes it as follows: “Class 500 registers are furnished with five rows of keys; registering capacity, 1 cent to $99.99 and one row of special keys, and with six rows of keys, registering capacity, 1 cent to $999.99, and one row of special keys.

The One millionth cash register is sold in NCR’s 27th year of business.

NCR saves many lives during the great flood in Dayton. John Patterson orders flat-bottom boats made by company carpenters; a tent city is erected for the homeless; and food and medical care are dispensed. Patterson successfully heads a million-dollar relief fund.

NCR begins manufacturing the Class 2000 accounting machines. Marketed in different versions up until 1973, the 2000 is the longest-running and one of the most successful of any NCR product. Different models will be constructed for accounting, banking, payroll and hotel administration. CEO: Frederick Beck Patterson, John Patterson’s son, becomes President, and his father the Chairman.

NCR introduces the Class 2000 bank machine, in an electronic version called the Postron-ic. It has over 20,000 parts and is assembled by hand. John Patterson, founder of NCR, dies after having led the company since 1884.

NCR buys the Ellis Adding Typewriter Company that produces the only machine available that combined a typewriter with an adding machine in one unit. This makes detailed accounting reports possible for the first time. NCR will improve on the concept until it is the most flexible accounting machine to exist in pre-electronic era.

Colonel Edward A. Deeds returns to NCR to become Chairman of the Board. He also co-founds the Wright Airplane Company with Orville Wright and others.

An NCR research team, led by Joseph R. Desch, breaks the German Enigma Code.

NCR acquires the Computer Research Corporation (CRC), which produces a line of digital computers with applications in aviation.

NCR’s Post-Tronic, the first product with automated features, is introduced to the banking industry.

Stanley C. Allyn becomes Chairman of the Board.

NCR introduces the NCR 304 business computer. It’s the first commercially available computer with a solid-state processor.

NCR develops the NCR 315, a general-purpose business computer. It is the first computer with the ability to upgrade to a higher version in this series.The NCR 390 is the first low-cost, mass-marketed computer. It uses punched tape recorders for original data entry.

The 420 optical scanner system is introduced. It reads the entered data from cash register journals and accounting machine tapes. The NCR 315 computer with random-access memory, and later, all-thin-film rod memory, is introduced.

He oversees the switch from traditional to electronic cash registers.

It is the first low-cost electronic data processing system to put programs, operating software and data on a hard disk.

The 10-millionth machine, the NCR 280, is manufactured.

NCR commercializes bar code scanners. The world’s first Universal Product Code (UPC) scanner is installed at Marsh’s Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first item to be scanned is a package of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum.

That marks the beginning of electronic funds transfer. Later, the development of NCR drive-through ATMs revolutionizes banking convenience for customers.

NCR becomes a leader in data communication technology with the acquisition of Com-ten, Inc., a data communications technology provider.

This establishes NCR as a pioneer in bringing industry standards and open systems architecture to the computer market.

He oversees the release of NCR’s first personal computer and the company’s development of ATMs that introduced features that became standard in the industry. NCR 9300, the industry’s first 32-bit VLSI mainframe, is released.

Several new, industry-compatible personal computer models are introduced. A 32-bit model is added to the UNIX®-based NCR TOWER family. A new generation of self-service automated teller machines is introduced.

A company-wide program makes NCR people aware of the company’s mission to “create value for stakeholders.” Product introductions include a new generation of advanced point-of-sale systems for the retail industry and a comprehensive new family of personal computer products.

AT&T and NCR sign a definitive merger agreement in May, and the merger completed on September 19. Product introductions include NCR’s fourth-generation of ATM technology, which offers retail banks an unprecedented level of availability: up to 99.9 percent. Gilbert P. Williamson named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Compris Technologies, Inc. was a leading provider of store automation and management software for the food-service industry. It also purchases Dataworks, a company that develops check-processing software, to grow its global imaging and item processing business. NCR prototypes the NCR self-checkouts

NCR acquires Kinetics, a leading provider of self-service check-in.

He begins reinventing the iconic company.

Terradata was the company’s data-warehousing business.

The company opens the Innovation Hub and manufacturing facility in Manaus, Brazil, and the Services Center of Excellence in Peachtree City, Georgia. NCR moves global Corporate HQ from Dayton, Ohio to Duluth, Georgia.