[2] The company was founded in Herkimer, New York, by George Cogar, Lauren King, and Ted Robinson, former Univac employees.

From the know-how acquired and absorbed, Mohawk expanded into the areas of controlling line printers and also Remote Job Entry (RJE).

Another major acquisition was Anelex Corporation of Boston, at the time the second-largest manufacturer of printers behind IBM and an early entrant in the hard disk drive market.

[2] Having sold around 10,000 systems worldwide, in the sports world it was known as the supplier for the computer hardware and software for "12 of the 28 teams in the National Football League".

[10] Mohawk renamed itself Qantel in 1988,[11] and in 1992 the remains of the latter, after bankruptcy, was acquired by Decision Data Computer Corporation.