[ale] Home Depot, we hardly knew ye...

[aaron]

I can pretty much guarantee that the deciding factors and technology were 
all NCR and nothing of Micro$haft (beyond the criminal monopolization of 
the front office, that is). Point of Sale and Scanners and, oh yes, Cash 
Registers are what NCR is all about. I've worked on several video and 
media sales presentations for the company and, beyond killing their 
potential with M$ dependencies, they seem exceptionally focused and 
competent in their market. Interesting to note that IBM is probably their 
most significant competitor.

As a techno geek I found the technology behind some of their bar code 
scanners was pretty fascinating as well. I remember a couple models had 
really ingenious methods for concisely tracing a single laser beam 
pattern through 3D space a couple hundred times a second. Some of my 
challenges in the media projects included creating video and 3D 
animations that demonstrated the inner workings.

peace
aaron

> John Wells wrote:
> >See the bottom post in slashback:
> >http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/17/2322244.shtml?tid=167

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