Oral history interview with Carl F. Rench, 1984 Apr. 18.

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Oral history interview with Carl F. Rench, 1984 Apr. 18.

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Rench, a National Cash Register--later NCR--employee since 1946, surveys the company's grow from a manufacturer of cash registers to one of the largest suppliers of business computers. He begins with NCR's 1946 experiments with vacuum tube arithmetic devices, work during the Korean War on the A-1-A bombing navigational system, and the acquisition in 1952 of the Computer Research Corporation. Rench points to Joseph Desch's role in moving NCR into electronics. Rench highlights the major products of the 1950s: the Post-Tronic machine for reading magnetic strips on ledger cards and doing financial transactions, and the Magnetic Ink Character Recognition device.

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