[7] The company, which as of 1985 "had made 14 acquisitions in 12 years,"[21] also had done extensive work regarding quality control,[22] and leveraged their product line by what The Washington Post called clever packaging: "software, cables, instructions and telephone support" sold to those less technically skilled as "Network in a Box.
To speed up project development they built a program generator, which they marketed as Control 10/20[26][27] (targeted at users of Digital Equipment Corporation's DECsystem-10 and DECSYSTEM-20).
After trying their hand at time-sharing they built hardware[28] to enhance bridging these computers to DEC's VAX product line.
They later expanded into other areas of telecommunications hardware[29] The firm relocated to a larger manufacturing plant in 1991[25] and was acquired by Penril in 1993.
[31] In the matter of hiring immigrants, in an industry where recent arrivals came from a culture of six day work weeks, and subcontracting was then common,[36] these assembly line workers at Penril comprised about 25%, compared to double in other firms.