The NCR 3000 series (1990)

Press release

NCR ANNOUNCES SEVEN-LEVEL NCR SYSTEM 3000; RELEASES SIX MODELS IN NEW FAMILY

London, September 18, 1990 -

NCR Limited today announced the System 3000, a seven-level family of general purpose, scalable, microprocessor-based computer systems that span a performance range of from 7.5 MIPS to more than 100,000 MIPS. Six models in three of the levels were released, including the multiprocessor NCR 3450 and 3550 systems.

Describing the announcement as the most significant product introduction in NCR's 106-year history, NCR Chairman and Managing Director Rex M Fleet, said, "The NCR System 3000 opens entirely new market opportunities to us. It gives us the capability of spanning the breadth of our customers' requirements, from data capture to complex information processing, to meet the end-to-end needs of any enterprise, no matter how large."

The Seven Levels

Level 3100 models will be easy-to-use mobile and portable computers, designed to bring 'hands-on' computing to where the work is;
Level 3200 models will be entry-level desktop computers with a broad performance range configurable into a space-saving footprint;
Level 3300 models are powerful desktop systems with a wide range of performance options and broad configurability in a footprint suitable for office environments;
Level 3400 models are the entry into scalable multiprocessor servers utilising tightly-coupled microprocessor architecture providing the best price/performance in the industry;
Level 3500 models offer mainframe-class reliability, data integrity, configurability and performance through scalable, symmetric multiprocessors;
Level 3600 models will be the new price/performance successors to expensive mainframe clusters;
Level 3700 models will offer unprecedented total performance. Configurable with thousands of processors, they will support the most demanding business applications.