NCR - Vintage Computer Chip, Semiconductor & Transistor Memorabilia

NCR Memorabilia

Company: National Cash Register (NCR)
Based: Duluth, Ga.
Founded: 1884, Acquired by AT&T in 1991
Founders: John Henry Patterson & Frank Jefferson Patterson
Specialty: Accounting & Adding Machines, ATM's, Cash Registers. Produced & Developed: the world's first solid state (fully transistorized) business computer (NCR 304), the first mass storage device, the Card Random Access Memory, Thin-Film Rod Memory, one of the first computers to use Integrated Circuits

image of a NCR Century Computer Ad from 1968

NCR Century Computer System (1968)

NCR Century 100 Computer Rod Memory & Texas Instruments NCR80 IC (1968)

image of a NCR Century Computer paperweight

Item #464

In the late 1960's the race was on to design the first computer built entirely with integrated circuits. The NCR Century 100 computer tied with Control Data CDC 7600 as the first computer to use Integrated Circuits.

The Century 100 used NCR's unique Advanced Technology Thin-Film "Rod Memory". Rod memory arrays were composed of thousands of tiny magnetic rods and wire loops that were similar in operation to magnetic core memory found on many other 1960's computers. Rod memory technology was mainly used in computers made by NCR.

This paperweight has a Texas Instruments NCR80 DIP chip in various stages and a single monolithic IC chip and Kovar frame component. Also, there is a disk read/write head and some NCR Thin Film Rod Memory components.

image of an NCR Century Computer Series Ad from 1968

NCR Century Computer Series Ad (1968)

image of an NCR Century 100 Computer System from 1968

NCR Century 100 Computer System (1968)

NCR Century 100 Computer Rod Memory & Signetics NCR80 IC (1968)

Item #488

This paperweight is the same as the one above but the Microprocessor is a Signetics NCR80 DIP chip and the Kovar lead frame is not gold plated as the item above.