(1) A floor-standing cabinet taller than it is wide. Desktop computers can be made into towers by turning them on their side and inserting them into a floor-mounted base.
(2) (Tower) Earlier series of Unix-based single and multiprocessor computer systems from NCR that used the Motorola 68000 family of CPUs.
(2) (Tower) Earlier series of Unix-based single and multiprocessor computer systems from NCR that used the Motorola 68000 family of CPUs.
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