A sign company hired by the university took down the NCR sign at the building’s Patterson Boulevard entrance late Thursday morning. The sign on the building will remain in place for now, the university administration said. In the next week or two, the UD signs will go up.
In June 2009, NCR rocked area residents by announcing it would relocate its headquarters and nearly 1,300 jobs to the Atlanta area.
As UD takes possession of the Fortune 500 company’s former core complex, NCR will leave behind on the property a windowless bunker that houses a data center and about 40 employees.
Dayton History, the regional heritage organization, stores a collection of NCR documents, cash registers and other NCR products, photographs and other memorabilia.
The NCR archive is not on public display and requires NCR permission to be examined, although there are discussions about whether to allow public display of at least some of the items in the future, said Jeff Opt, a Dayton History archivist who oversees the NCR materials.
NCR said goodbye to Dayton on Wednesday with this statement from company spokesman Peter Tulupman: “NCR has been a proud citizen of Dayton since the company was founded 125 years ago. NCR appreciates the support it has received from the Dayton community over the years.”
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