Anelex Corporation was founded in 1951[1] by E. Ross Anderson (c. 1896–1968), a business magistrate in Boston who had formerly co-founded Anderson-Nichols & Co., a diversified manufacturing concern, with Henry B. Nichols in 1922.
[5] The genesis of Anelex came when the United States federal government contracted Anderson-Nichols & Co. for a high-speed line printer.
[1] Anelex's primary focus in the beginning of its existence was high-speed line printers for analog and digital mainframe computers.
[10]: D-144 [9] By 1962, Anelex was in their fifth generation of printer products, high-end models of which were capable of printing 2000 alphanumeric lines per minute.
[8]: 10 [11] In late 1963, the company announced its first hard disk drive products, to be plug compatible with IBM's concurrent offerings.