Other business areas included microwave, missile and space electronics; infrared imaging; and automated mission planning systems, with both military and commercial applications.

The first home video game console was developed as a side project by engineer Ralph H. Baer and several assistants at Sanders.

It moved its operations to Nashua in 1952, taking up a vacant mill building and restoring economic vitality to a city that had been devastated by the post-World War II departure of the textile industry from New England to the lower-cost American South.

Sanders Flexprint division was involved with producing printed wiring boards and flex circuitry for all branches of the military and for all platforms.

Terminals provided data entry capability into mainframes as well as light pen pointing and selection before the mouse was in use.