Intermec Technologies Corporation of Everett, Washington is a part of UNOVA, a $1.1 billion industrial and data services company. Founded in 1966, the company invented the first hand-held order-entry terminal in 1969, and two years later the first portable bar code scanner. Over the next few years the company rolled out the first commercially available on-demand bar code label printers and computerized cash registers. The company spent the remainder of the 70’s standardizing the bar code and pioneering the use of portable computers in distribution systems. Intermec continued to develop and improve on barcode systems throughout the 80s while investing in radio-frequency technologies, eventually introducing the first spread spectrum radio frequency data communication technology to be approved by the FCC in 1990.
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