Editing NCR Voyix (section)

===Post-war===
[[Image:BRL61-NCR 304.jpg|thumb|right|NCR 304 Computer]]
Building on its wartime experience with secret communication systems, high speed counters and cryptanalytic equipment,<ref>{{cite web |url= https://purl.umn.edu/107540 |title= Oral history interview with Robert E. Mumma |date= 19 April 1984 |publisher= [[Charles Babbage Institute]], University of Minnesota |last1= Mumma |first1= Robert E. |journal=  |access-date= 30 March 2012 |archive-date= 7 March 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220307120815/https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107540 |url-status= live }}</ref> 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 carbon-less copy paper. This became US Patent 2,730,457 and was commercialized as "[[Carbonless copy paper|NCR Paper]]."

In February 1953, the company acquired the [[Computer Research Corporation]] (CRC),<ref>Reilly, Edwin D. (2003). "Milestones in Computer and Science History". Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 164.</ref> 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 the General Electric Company (now known as [[General Electric|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]])<ref>{{cite web |url= https://purl.umn.edu/107606 |title= Oral history interview with Carl Rench |date= 18 April 1984 |publisher= Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota |last1= Rench |first1= Carl F. |journal=  |access-date= 30 March 2012 |archive-date= 7 March 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220307120811/https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107606 |url-status= live }}</ref> and the NCR 3100 accounting machines.<ref name="hycon">{{cite journal| journal= Hycon Hylights | title= Electronic Computing Speeds Hycon Accounting Procedures| date= Sep 1962| publisher= Hycon Mfg. Company Monrovia, Calif.| volume= 8| issue=7}}</ref>

In 1962, NCR introduced the [[NCR 315]] Electronic Data Processing System which included the [[NCR CRAM|CRAM]] storage device, the first automated [[mass storage]] alternative to [[magnetic tape]] libraries accessed manually by computer operators. The [[NCR 390]] and [[NCR 500|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.<ref name="hycon"/>
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 in 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ncr/century/RM-0141_Vol1_ProcRef_Apr79/11_Century300_Dec73.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006193446/https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ncr/century/RM-0141_Vol1_ProcRef_Apr79/11_Century300_Dec73.pdf |archive-date=6 October 2021 |title= Product Information – NCR Century Processors NCR Century 300 Processor |date=December 1973|publisher= NCR Corporation}}</ref> 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.

In 1974, scanners and computers developed by NCR marked the first occasion where items with the Universal Product Code (UPC) was scanned at the checkout of a supermarket, Troy's Marsh Supermarket in [[Troy, Ohio]], a few miles away from NCR's Dayton Headquarters. It was treated as a ceremonial occasion and involved a little bit of ritual. The night before, a team of Marsh's supermarket staff had moved in to put bar codes on hundreds of items in the store while NCR installed their scanners and computers.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Weightman |first=Gavin |title=The History of the Bar Code |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-bar-code-180956704/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209200805/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-bar-code-180956704/ |archive-date=9 February 2022|date=23 September 2015 |access-date=7 March 2022 |magazine=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}</ref>

In 1982, NCR's Peripheral Products Division in [[Wichita, Kansas]], together with peripheral manufacturer, [[Shugart Associates]], helped propel the computer industry into a new era of intelligent standardized peripheral communications with the development the [[SCSI|Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)]]. The SCSI standard enabled such diverse devices as disks, tapes, printers, and scanners to share a common interface to one or more computer systems in a way that was never before possible and a model for subsequent interfaces to follow. NCR developed the world's first SCSI interface chip, the [[NCR 5380]], based on the SCSI interface standard collaboratively developed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://smithsonianchips.si.edu/ncr/scsi-2.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231080020/https://smithsonianchips.si.edu/ncr/scsi-2.htm|archive-date=31 December 2021|title=The Chip Collection – NCR Collection, SCSI – Smithsonian Institution|website=smithsonianchips.si.edu}}</ref> In the third quarter of 1982, NCR announced the release of a 32-bit VLSI processor architecture and chipset called [[NCR/32]].<ref name="ieeemicro-dec1983"/> These devices were used in several of their 9x00 and System 10000 computer systems.

By 1986, the count of American [[mainframe computer]] manufacturers had dwindled from 8 ([[IBM]] and the "seven dwarfs," namely [[Burroughs Corporation|Burroughs]], [[UNIVAC]], NCR, [[Control Data Corporation|Control Data]], [[Honeywell]], [[General Electric]], and [[RCA]])<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Bergin|editor-first=Thomas J |title=50 Years of Army Computing: From ENIAC to MSRC|year=2000|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=978-0-9702316-1-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAr_Z1B494MC}}</ref>{{rp|p.83}} to 6 (IBM and the "[[BUNCH]]") and further reduced to 4 (IBM, Unisys, NCR, and Control Data Corporation).

The adoption of the name '''NCR Corporation''' occurred in 1974.