Originally designed for 8-16 users, later models would support hundreds. While the current focus was on proprietary mainframe systems the Tower charted the long range direction toward Open Systems . More than 100,000 of these systems would be delivered. Worldwide production of these modern miracles was centralized in Scotland and the wizards in Dundee discovered all sorts of clever uses for them. These machines would not only dispense cash, but also documents like airline tickets and boarding passes.
Later models read and cashed checks and even dispensed coin as well as paper currency.
Following the Open Systems vision, NCR began a staged release of the System 3000 Family in the early '90s. This scalable series ranged from single processor workstations to massively-parallel systems with hundreds of Intel Pentium processors. NCR was delivering the massively-parallel solutions that others were just dreaming about. Contrary to popular opinion, most of the largest databases live on these systems, not those of that other computer company. All rights reserved.