Genisco Technology

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| name = Genisco Technology Corporation

| logo = File:Genisco Technology logo.svg

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| industry = Electronics

| founded = {{Start date and age|1983}} in La Mirada, California, United States

| defunct = {{end date|1997}}

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Genisco Technology Corporation, also known as Solaris Genisco, is a maker of military computers and electronic filters and has been heavily involved with military contracts. Genisco incorporated in 1983 and is based in Anaheim, California.{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=274986 |title=Company Overview of Genisco Technology Corp. |publisher=Bloomberg |access-date=April 17, 2017 }}

Genisco's products were used primarily in the military and in factory automation.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-02-18-fi-33272-story.html |title=Genisco Technology Files for Protection |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=February 18, 1995 }} The company was based in La Mirada, California before moving to Anaheim.{{cite news |author=Dean Takahashi |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-17-fi-756-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |title=Genisco Technology Says Tentative Pact Avoids Bankruptcy |date=December 17, 1991 }}

Its transducer sub-division built the altimeters for the HARM missile, Space Shuttle cabin pressure transducers and liquid thruster fuel line pressure sensors, Mark 48 naval torpedoes, civilian airliner brake pad pressure sensors, and Idaho Nuclear Commission water valve switching sensors. In November 1988, the company pled guilty to falsifying test data on torpedo simulators, a mobile underwater target device, and HARM missile transducers. Genisco paid a $725,000 fine{{cite news |author=Kim Murphy |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-08-me-358-story.html |title=Genisco Must Pay $725,000 for Fake Military Test Data |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 8, 1988 }} and three supervisors in the transducer division were sentenced to prison terms in January 1989.{{cite news |author=Kim Murphy |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-24-me-922-story.html |title=3 Sent to Prison for Supplying Faulty Military Weapons Parts |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 24, 1989 }}{{cite web |author=Michael C. Tipping |url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/01/23/Genisco-managers-jailed-for-faulty-parts-scheme/7813601534800/ |title=Genisco managers jailed for faulty parts scheme |publisher=UPI |date=January 23, 1989 }}The falsification of data was covered in a 60 Minutes episode broadcast on October 8, 1989, "Harm's Way": {{cite web |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-03171?view=text |title=Mike Wallace CBS/60 Minutes papers: 1922–2007 (bulk 1968–2007) |publisher=Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan |access-date=April 18, 2017 }}

The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 1995. Soon after, it announced that it had sold its filter division, Genisco Electronics, and its Eldema Indicator Lites indicator line, including a factory in Tijuana, Mexico, to Potter Production Corp. of Minneapolis, Minnesota.{{cite news |author=Don Lee |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-02-22-fi-34870-story.html |title=Troubled Genisco Technology Sells Division, Main Product Line: Deal: Announcement comes less than a week after Anaheim firm filed for Chapter 11 protection |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=February 22, 1995 }} It retained its Solaris division, which produced "hardened" computer workstations for factory floors,{{cite news |title=Genisco to Sell Electronics Division |newspaper=Computer Business Review |date=December 9, 1994 }} in a licensing agreement with Sun Microsystems.{{cite web |url=http://egle.lanet.lv/ftp/unix/sun-info/sunflash/1990/Jun/18.05.genisco |title=GTC to offer hardened Sun SPARCstations for factory floor |publisher=Sun Microsystems |date=June 1990 |type=press release }}