Teklogix
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| Industry | Technology, Wireless Real-Time Data Capture, Computers, Automation, Emulators |
| Successor | Psion Teklogix |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Founder | Rod Coutts, Lawrie Cragg, Al Vanderburgh, Cliff Bernard and Pete Halsall |
| Headquarters | Mississauga, Canada |
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Key people
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Rod Coutts, Lawrie Cragg, Al Vanderburgh, Cliff Bernard and Pete Halsall |
| Services | Automation, Wireless Real-Time Data Capture |
| Website | www.teklogix.com |
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Footnotes / references (Website is redirected to www.psion.com) |
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Teklogix (more fully, Teklogix International Inc.) was created in 1967 by Lawrence Cragg together with a small group of engineers.The company focused on mini computer applications. It designed and built complete systems based upon DEC's PDP-8 computer, DEC's logic modules and purpose built logic. Many of the company's projects involved control of material handling systems and this led to the development of radio linked terminals for installation on fork lift trucks complete with multiplexers to interface to a variety of main frame computer systems.
In September 2000 Teklogix was acquired by U.K.-based Psion PLC, and became Psion Teklogix Inc.
The founders are: Rod Coutts, Lawrie Cragg, Al Vanderburgh, Cliff Bernard and Pete Halsall. Lawrie Cragg ran the company as President for the first nine years of its life.
The group met while working at Ferranti International's Canadian division, Ferranti-Packard Electronics. The engineers worked on projects related to FP6000 (Ferranti-Packard 6000, which became the ICL 1900), ReserVec, Back Up Interceptor Control (BUIC) for the United States Military, as well as Ferranti-Packard's drum memory systems. The group left Ferranti-Packard and formed Teklogix.
On September 20, 1967, Teklogix was formed by a group of five engineers. The first contract came from I. P. Sharp Associates (another Ferranti offspring) that involved the interface of a DEC PDP-8 computer to an X-ray spectrometer. The system controlled reagent feeders in a copper and zinc floatation mill. The objective was to analyze the mine head (i.e. what was coming out of the mine) using on-line X-ray spectroscopy and, then, using mathematical algorithms developed by University of Toronto, add the appropriate amounts of reagent to optimize mineral recovery.
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