Sanders Associates

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Sanders Associates, Inc.
HeadquartersNashua, New Hampshire, United States
ProductsComputer terminals, printed circuits

Sanders Associates was a defense contractor in

BAE Systems Electronics & Integrated Solutions, a subsidiary of BAE Systems
. It concentrated on developing and manufacturing electronic systems, notably aircraft self-protection systems, and tactical surveillance and intelligence systems. Other business areas included microwave, missile and space electronics; infrared imaging; and automated mission planning systems, with both military and commercial applications.

The first home video game console was developed as a side project by engineer Ralph H. Baer and several assistants at Sanders. The production of the final product was granted to Magnavox, a home electronics company, and sold under the name Magnavox Odyssey.

History

The company was founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in July 1951, formed by eleven engineers and scientists from Raytheon. It was named for Royden C. Sanders Jr., one of the original eleven associates. It moved its operations to Nashua in 1952, taking up a vacant mill building and restoring economic vitality to a city that had been devastated by the post-World War II departure of the textile industry from New England to the lower-cost American South.[1]

Sanders Associates was one of the premier flexible printed circuit manufacturers during the 1960s and 1970s. It specialized in complex flexible circuit assemblies and specialized printed wiring boards for both the U.S. military and space programs including the Saturn V and Lunar Excursion Module. Sanders also produced flexible circuitry for most other commercial applications including medical equipment. Sanders Flexprint division was involved with producing printed wiring boards and flex circuitry for all branches of the military and for all platforms. The Flexprint division was sold in the late seventies or early eighties.

Most divisions of Sanders Associates competed in the government marketplace. One division marketed intelligent terminals to the commercial marketplace. These intelligent terminals competed against

Dallas, Texas
.

In 1986, Sanders Associates was bought by

BAE Systems Electronics & Integrated Solutions
.

Video games

The first home

Ralph Baer in 1966. It became the Magnavox Odyssey.[5]

References

  1. ^ NHBR obituary for Mort Goulder, Sanders co-founder Archived 20 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "The Telegraph - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Contract for BAE". The Times. Times Newspapers. 28 November 2000.
  4. ^ Parreault, Carl (14 July 2004). "British aerospace firm buys Sanders". The Union Leader.
  5. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 17 June 2021.

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