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Vintage NCR Class 2000 Accounting Machine Overview (1921-55) (Computer History)

Computer History Archives Project ("CHAP")

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If you love "Old Accounting Machines" you might enjoy this. Through rare film clips and vintage photos we explore a bit of history on National Cash Register (NCR) Class 2000 Accounting Machine introduced in 1921. Also, take a look at original service and training documentation from the 1920's-1940's. Run time, about 6 mins. (An Educational Presentation, Produced by the "Computer History Archives Project", an independent research activity dedicated to the research and preservation of vintage computing technology. )
The NCR Class 2000 was an electric bookkeeping and accounting machine, quite complex, and very successful in the marketplace. It was eventually replaced by NCR's Post-Tronic machine, which was all electronic (1956), and later, of course, by fully electronic digital computers.
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15 авг 2024

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@sylview.bedard3070 10 месяцев назад

I did data entry on a 2000 back in the 70's.....at the NCR office in Montreal, Quebec 😊

@sherlocklhoms2567 4 месяца назад

J'ai vu une machine qui ressemblait à celle-ci au petit musée d'un ancien monastère de moniales bénidictines. C'est assez impressionnant. J'ai remarqué que beaucoup de chiffres se répétaient sur les rangées des touches.

@headpox5817 4 года назад

Another great look at the history of computing. Thank you CHAP. Keep up the good work.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 4 года назад

Thank you very much. ~ Victor, at CHAP.

@luisluiscunha 4 года назад

This is so interesting!... The Elliott computers came from here... They were very important in Europe. There was a time in where there were less than 10 computers in Portugal, in the early 1960's, and many were Elliotts 803b's, and latter 4100s.

@alfonsoflorio 4 года назад

please keep up with the great work

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 4 года назад

Alfonso, thank you. : ) .. Victor, at CHAP

@jerry3890 4 года назад

It is interesting that John Henry Patterson once fired Thomas J Watson, who went on to find the position of CEO of IBM. At one time Patterson and Watson were found guilty of violation of the Sherman Anti Trust act and sentenced to one year prison, but the convictions were later reversed and neither served any time. According to the legend Patterson dumped Watson's desk and contents on the front lawn of the building and set them on fire while Watson was out to indicate that he no longer worked there.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 4 года назад

Jarry S., fascinating. Thanks! ~ : )

@TheTwick 4 года назад

“The machine required significant skill and dexterity to operate proficiently...” Good thing the world had so many post-war working women to fulfill that function. I think my mother was one of those women (same hairdo). She worked for an accounting firm about that time. ;-)

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 4 года назад

Hi Greg, I can imagine that it took quite a bit of work and focus to operate this machine for hours each day(!). Thanks for your feedback. Yes, we owe a lot to the post-war women of the time. ~ Victor, CHAP

@mfbfreak 9 месяцев назад

@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject It's an old comment, but i can attest to this. I was reading company news bulletins from Radio Holland - the company that hired out radio officers and radio equipment for ocean going ships worldwide. They used punch card (Hollerith) systems from IBM. Somewhere in the late 40s or early 50s, they went through a discussion about the introduction of a 40 hour work week for office personnel. The explanation why the workshop people had to work 48 hours, while the office personnel had to work "only" 40 hours, was that after trials they figured out that if you make those administration workers work longer, all that extra work that was being done in 48 hours was negated by the extra errors made by mentally fatigued workers. Fixing an error in the days before computers takes a lot more time than doing it right the first time, after all. It only takes a handful of errors to make worthless 8 hours of work, if you gotta wait for the mail to come around, pay for postage etc. The workshop workers were doing routine work that did not require much mental concentration and effort (or so the company claimed to have concluded). Though eventually the whole country standardized on 40 hours as a standard, overtime within specific rules.

@informalzombie2888 4 года назад

Knowing how to play piano would be helpful to operate this machine, it doesn't look easy. Great video!

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 4 года назад

Informal Zombie, thank you. It amazed me too how many keys this device had. The learning curve must have been quite a bear to overcome. : ) Victor at CHAP.

@thesteelrodent1796 Год назад

more on how this machine actually worked would be nice

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Год назад

Thank you. We agree. There is actually little surviving video/film about these large machines, even though they were successful for NRC back in the day. Probably, more detailed info exists in the NRC archives and collections like the one in Dayton. www.dayton.com/news/local/things-know-about-the-multi-million-dollar-gift-that-tell-dayton-story/OOzY8yMuFPGrHokfcKw07I/