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Greetings to all former employees of NCR, I worked from 1971 to 1978 by NCR, working on sistem 400, 446, 399, 499, I-8200, I-8250, and after a customer on I-8270 and I-10000/55 . I did the first course European in zurich Imos beta.
 Someone can me help:
 - I would like to know the name of the company in Wichita KA, who developed the OS IMOS, first worked on the 8000 series  in B1.

 Many thanks and greetings from Switzerland.

 Giorgio

Other members of the Instructing Staff at the London school in Borehamwood and Brent some may remember from those early days in 1963 onwards were
Dr Reidle
Dave Lewis
Dudley Lowe
Terry Mozley
John O Hara
Gordon Catchpole
Dave Friend
Hubert Wudke
Gunter Seitz

My name is Terry Mozley and I was a 315 and 615 Instructor at Borehamwood and Brent. I then managed the transfer of the training facility to Dundee and continued to manage the training operation in Dundee for a while before leaving NCR  to manage the Computer Technology department of the Control Data Institute in London.  I would love to make contact and chat with engineers who I might have trained in those early days. The 12 years I spent with NCR were certainly the challenging and the most enjoyable of my career in the computer industry (I am now retired)

"Back in the day" I worked on the Software QA team in Wichita, Kansas for the IMOS, IMOS III, and IMOS V operating systems. All of them ran on the 82xx/9020 minicomputers. For retail systems, the same hardware also supported the TCOS OS, core of the STORES retail system, which had a "full-featured" back-end operating system.

As if that weren't enough, there was also the ICS retail-store scanning system, which was highly optimized to serve bar-code scanning retail terminals. ICS was capable of handling 15 scanners that scanned an aggregate of over 50,000 items per hour.

The NCR Corporation and Dayton History joined in an innovative partnership committed to preserving the NCR Archive.
This link provides lots of old photos from NCR and Dayton.

http://www.daytonhistory.org/archives/nat_treasure.htm

I do not have a photo of DC office but just wanted to let you know that the current issue of NCR_REA is now available on line to members. There is a aerial photo of the Dayton complex  that is new to me. I would guess about 1960 or 61.
Brad

I agree that the modules are from a compu tronic , The photo just posted is exactly as I remembered seeing them in Grand Rapids Mi when I was an apprentice.  Marv Kloote was the first CE trained on this machine.
Brad

Hi Marv, you are right. I found an old picture of the inside of a 441 at ITEC Giessen.
I was probably thinking of a 395 or 400. I found it in this PDF.

http://www.thecorememory.com/Giessen_School_1965.pdf

At least the module 3 from above seems to be from a 441.

I remember things like 12AS7s…6SN7s…thyratrons…massive cooling fans…165-volt anode voltages...anodes, cathodes and grids. I don't remember any transistors in there. But I could be wrong.

Hi Marv,
I'm not the only one, who thinks the Computronic was transistorized.

http://www.ncr.org.uk/441%20computronic.html