[1] It was originally based in Los Angeles, California; in the early 1980s, it moved to Laguna Beach, and in the late 1980s, to Garden Grove.

[1][2] Originally located in the far corner of West Los Angeles, Informer moved to Westchester, Los Angeles, in fall 1976, occupying a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) facility as their headquarters, manufacturing plant, and research and development laboratory.

[5]: 391 Informer in 1976 manufactured glass terminals with small CRTs as well as traditional keyboard-send-and-receive and receive-only teleprinters.

[7] The company established ten branch offices in the United States by that year;[5] at some point in the mid-1980s, they also opened a Canadian subsidiary in Richmond, British Columbia.

[5] Following struggling sales in the mid-1980s, the company appointed Malcolm K. Green, formerly of Emulex as president and CEO.

[13] In May 1990, the company unveiled the Informer 213PT, a portable terminal that also doubles as a PC-compatible computer, complete with an i386 processor and DOS 3.3 in ROM.