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When it comes to automation, U.S. department stores still slosh around in the Ice Age. This week the biggest of them all, Manhattan's Macy's, announced a deal with National Cash Register Co. for the first major automated system. Due to start whirring in 1961, the $1...
Millions for Research. The breakthrough at Macy's is the result of a major advance at venerable N.C.R., the world's No. 1 seller of cash registers and No. 2 maker of office equipment (after International Business Machines). N.C.R. is hustling to expand beyond mechanical to electronic machines...
Brains for Banks. While N.C.R. hopes to cash in with these and other new specialty products, Allyn feels that the big market is for small computers and automated office equipment for small as well as big companies. He is willing to let IBM and Remington Rand dominate the market for...
So far, computer men have been able to build only a slight amount of learning ability into a few experimental machines. But they have great plans for the future. Dr. S. Gill of Ferranti Ltd. (British computer manufacturer) said that machines that can really learn will have vast abilities. They...
The system is the invention of Bill and Ruth Marantette, a young engineering, couple from Columbia Falls (pop. 1,232), Mont. They started work three years ago in a garage workshop with $2,500 in savings, an $1,800 loan, plus further cash put up by Topp when it bought...