Commenting on its first quarter figures (see page five), NCR Corp said that earnings per share would have been $0.06 better and would therefore have risen – but for a $7m special charge for defending against the hostile AT&T Co bid: the worldwide order value for small computer systems and workstations reached an all-time high for any quarter with significant orders for the NCR System 3000 Model 3320 – and there was even solid order growth for the NCR 9800 mainframe; the company is preparing to launch two models of the System 3100 notepad and notebook portable computers and, at the high-end, the NCR System 3600 large-scale computer which it expects to be the most powerful general-purpose computer offered in the market at the time of launch.
