NCR Proprietary Operating Systems

RECAPS
Operating system developed in Canada(?) for 8200/9020 to run 7750 document processing machines.

I remember well working back late one night in the Adelaide (South Australia) office assisting one of our programming staff installings RECAPS 4.1 on a 9020 computer.

It just wouldn't install, kept coming back with an error, once decoded, pointed to the disk controller.

The Technical Manager was there too and rang Canada for assistance.

Canada had themselves not yet installed RECAPS 4.1 on a 9020 and informed him they would look into it immediately.

Several hours later they rang back and informed us we needed RECAPS 4.2 for a 9020 because of the different disk controller used in it.

They told us it would be about two days before they could supply 4.2 as they were busy writing it because of our phone call. LOL.

Amazingly once we received the updated version 4.2 everything worked smoothly.

Later 7750 controlling software came from Switzerland but I cannot recall what that was called.