Informer, Inc. was co-founded in
Los Angeles, California, in 1971 by Donald Allen Domike (1927–2017). Originally located in the far corner of
West Los Angeles, Informer moved to
Westchester, Los Angeles, in fall 1976, occupying a facility as their headquarters, manufacturing plant, and research and development laboratory. Informer in the mid-1970s appointed Bryon Cole as president of the company and Wilfred "Will" R. Little as vice president of marketing. By 1981, Little replaced Cole as president. Informer in 1976 manufactured
glass terminals with small
CRTs as well as traditional
keyboard-send-and-receive and
receive-only teleprinters. The company established ten branch offices in the United States by that year; 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. 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. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the company began orienting their products toward state
emergency services, manufacturing terminals and call-tracking systems for
9-1-1 call centers, though they still offered general-purpose terminals as well. Edward P. Dailey replaced Little as president and CEO around this time. In 2000, the company employed 20 in Garden Grove. Informer went defunct in 2007. ==Notable products==