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Article: DUDE, YOU'RE USING A DELL CASH REGISTER
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- January 14, 2003
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Company moving into point-of-sale terminal business
AUSTIN, Texas - Cha-ching! Dell Computer Corp. is getting into the
cash-register business.
The company said it's now selling a personal-computer-based cash-
register system to retailers, taking on IBM Corp. and NCR Corp., the
Dayton company that practically created the register business when it
was known as National Cash Register. Dell started marketing the
product to retailers Monday at the National Retail Federation trade
show in New York.
It's Dell's latest effort to find new sales amid a continued
slowdown in corporate computer buying and, over the longer term, to
reach its goal of doubling the company's revenue to about $65 billion ...