Happy Birthday brother Gary(IbuyNCR)!

**Xplantdad** · #1 03-02-2010, 04:00 AM

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Any bro of Bruce has to be a great guy too so Happy B'Day Gary!.

What's w/ the NCR note...Gary working Boss Kett's old job?.

~ Pete

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Gary collects old NCR cash registers!

**Bill Pritchard** · #2 03-02-2010, 04:31 AM

Have a great day, Gary!!!

**CC Rider** · #3 03-02-2010, 05:50 AM

Happy birthday!

JJEH · #4 03-02-2010, 09:15 AM

Happy B-Day

1970Ls6 · #5 03-02-2010, 11:11 AM

Happy Birthday!!

**PeteLeathersac** · #6 03-02-2010, 05:36 PM

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Any bro of Bruce has to be a great guy too so Happy B'Day Gary!.

What's w/ the NCR note...Gary working Boss Kett's old job?.

~ Pete

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Gary collects old NCR cash registers!

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Very cool...what's the oldest unit he has?.
Any of Kett's original models before he got Delco going?.

~ Pete

**YenkoYS-199Stinger** · #7 03-02-2010, 05:42 PM

Happy birthday Gary!!!!

cheers

**Xplantdad** · #8 03-03-2010, 02:01 AM

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Any bro of Bruce has to be a great guy too so Happy B'Day Gary!.

What's w/ the NCR note...Gary working Boss Kett's old job?.

~ Pete

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Gary collects old NCR cash registers!

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Very cool...what's the oldest unit he has?.
Any of Kett's original models before he got Delco going?.

~ Pete

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He's got some pretty old ones...Gary...are you around?

I will be screwing with our home computer...which just got infected AGAIN...

ibuyncr · #9 03-03-2010, 06:48 AM

Hi,

Thanks to everyone for their kind birthday wishes.
As to the NCR's - all from the brass era - so pre 1915. Also from the small candy store types (highest sale you can ring-up at $ .59), to the really big ones including one that is a free standing floor model. That one is 6 cash register in one, and has a electric motor from 1907 that still works. Oldest? That is 1895 - but rarity trumps age. I have a wood one with an in-laid design and side by side cash drawers (from around 1901), that is the star of the collection. Chaa -Ching! LOL

**PeteLeathersac** · #10 03-05-2010, 08:41 PM

Cool stuff Gary!.

As you probably well know, Kettering designed a few NCR units before leaving and starting Delco including the first electric cash registers...most likely the design you have?.
Kettering and Durant are my favourite early automotive pioneers and I've read a few books on them both.. Kett was an amazing man and the creator of many things besides the electric starter...like freon, leaded gas and single telephone lines that carry multi calls at the same time plus the man who made the modern diesels really work...lots more too!.

Are the original wooden crates the NCR registers were shipped from the factory in worth much?.
A couple years back I asked a guy who bought an old store I used to go to what happened to the old NCR register I used to see there.. He told me he sold it quickly to a collector for some amount I forget but mentioned he'd recently found the original wooden shipping crate for it when cleaning out the basement.. He told me he'd save it for me if it hadn't gone to the dump yet...should I be calling him and following this up?.

~ Pete

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