AIM 1980's
LOGMARS - DoD
On September 1, 1981, the United States Department of Defense adopted the use of Code 39 for marking all products sold to the United States military with a system called LOGMARS. This adoption of the bar code for military applications significantly pushed the bar code into numerous industrial applications to follow. |
SCAN-TECH 89 held in San Jose with 9600 attendees and 230 exhibitors. SCAN-TECH was dubbed "SCAN-QUAKE" and is still referred to as this for many in the industry.
At the end of the opening day of the event - October 17, 1989 at 5:04pm - a 7.1 earthquake hit with the epicenter in Mt. Loma Prieta (only 22 miles from San Jose). The quake killed 63 people throughout northern California, injured 3,757 and left some 3,000-12,000 people homeless. |
AIM & the Voluntary Interindustry Communications Standards (VICS) jointly launch a new conference - the QuickResponse Conference & Show. The event ran annually through 1995, then changed names to the "IQ" event that ran until 1997 when VICS became the sole sponsor of the event. Eventually VICS becomes the merchandise group within GS1 US.
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