Applied Digital Data Systems, which has taken over the making of X-terminals from its parent NCR Corp, is moving production from Orlando, Florida to its headquarters in Hauppauge, New York. Display marketing director Vincent Luciano claims that the company can make them more cheaply and quickly there than if they came out of the Far East. Marketing and services will remain down there alongside the Disneyworld vacation paradise in Orlando. And the ADDS Systems Division, best known as a sturdy Pick-popper, last week announced that it will be adding a new Motorola 68040-based Mentor 7000 to its line of Pick systems for resellers. It claims that the new Model 5/50 doubles the performance of the current high-end Mentor 7000 5/30. The hardware, which is not due out until April – that shortage of those crucial Motorola Inc chips again – will be manufactured by NCR, ADDS’ parent. The box, priced between $60,000 and $70,000 will run Pick either stand-alone or concurrently with Unix.
