Informer Computer Terminals, Inc., originally Informer, Inc., and later Informer Computer Systems, Inc., was a privately held[1] American computer company active from 1971 to the late 1990s. It manufactured data terminals that could communicate with mainframes and minicomputers, mainly those manufactured by IBM and Digital.[1] It was originally based in Los Angeles, California; in the early 1980s, it moved to Laguna Beach, California, and in the late 1980s, it moved to Garden Grove, California.
 Former headquarters in Garden Grove, California (pictured in 2021) | |
| Formerly |
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|---|---|
| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Computers |
| Founded | 1971 in Los Angeles, California |
| Founder | Donald Allen Domike |
| Products | Computer terminals (glass, teleprinters) |
Corporate history
Informer, Inc. was co-founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1971 by Donald Allen Domike (1927–2017).[1][2] Informer in the mid-1970s appointed Bryon Cole as president of the company and Wilfred "Will" R. Little as vice president of marketing.[3] By 1981, Little replaced Cole as president.[4]: 391 The company in 1976 manufactured glass terminals with small CRTs as well as traditional keyboard-send-and-receive and receive-only teleprinters.[5][3] It achieved sales of $1 million in fiscal year 1976, projecting a doubling of sales for the following year.[3]
Informer in 1981 had ten branch offices in the United States,[4] and some time in the mid 1980s they opened a Canadian subsidiary in Richmond, British Columbia.[5] Its products in the early 1980s comprised not only glass terminals and teleprinters but also barcode readers and batch terminals. Informer's terminals were used for data entry, data monitoring, remote job entry, and software programming.[4] Following struggling sales in the mid-1980s, the company appointed Malcolm K. Green, formerly of Emulex as president and CEO.[1] Shortly after Green relocated the company's headquarters to Garden Grove, California.[6][7]
By the early 1990s the company had renamed itself to Informer Computer Systems, Inc. In 1994, the company spun off its local area and dial-up networking security software operations as Informer Data Security, Inc. Bradley Little was named president of the new company.[8]
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References
- ^ a b c d Staff writer (December 11, 1986). "Orange County". Los Angeles Times. Times-Mirror Company: 3 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Obituary for Donald Allen Domike". Halley-Olsen-Murphy Funerals and Cremations. January 28, 2017. Archived from the original on January 26, 2023.
- ^ a b c Hebert, John P. (October 25, 1976). "Small CRT Maker Expects Big Growth". Computerworld. 10 (43). CW Communications: 47 – via the Internet Archive.
- ^ a b c Davis, George R., ed. (November 1980). "Data Communications Update Service". Data Communications. 9 (11). McGraw-Hill: 201–492 – via the Internet Archive.
- ^ a b Staff writer (August 13, 1985). "Investment approvals, acquisitions announced". The Globe and Mail. Bell Globemedia Publishing: B13 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Staff writer (June 22, 1986). "Brian D. Markham has been named president of Imperial Automation". Los Angeles Times. Times-Mirror Company: 2 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Ruiz, Frank (September 6, 1987). "Tech Bytes". The Tampa Tribune-Times: 6-E – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Staff writer (March 28, 1994). "New data-security developer emerges". Computer Reseller News. CMP Publications: 148 – via ProQuest.