General Automation, Inc.

General Automation was founded in 1967 by two former employees of a company called Decision Control, Inc. An engineer named Larry Goshorn and a marketing guy named Burt Yale developed a line of computer products that served as the basis of industrial and commercial automation systems designed to solve automation problems similar to those addressed by the products of GE’s Process Control Division. GA sold its systems both directly and to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to be included in their systems.