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{{Infobox company
| name = Bunker Ramo Corporation
| logo = Bunker Ramo logo.svg
| logo_caption = Final logo before acquisition
| type = Subsidiary
| industry = Electronics manufacturing
| fate = Purchased by [[AlliedSignal]] in 1981 and became part of [[Honeywell]]
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| founded = 1964
| founders = George M. Bunker, [[Simon Ramo]] 
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| products = Military electronics, Digital computers
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'''Bunker Ramo Corporation''',{{efn|Originally hyphenated as '''Bunker-Ramo Corporation'''}} often shortened to '''Bunker Ramo''', was an American electronics company based in [[Trumbull, Connecticut]]. It was founded by George M. Bunker and [[Simon Ramo]] in 1964, jointly owned by [[Martin-Marietta]] and Thompson Ramo Wooldridge ([[TRW Inc.|TRW]]).<ref name=LAT>{{cite web|title=Abstract (Document Summary)|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/465935392.html?dids=465935392:465935392&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+24%2C+1964&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=TRW%2C+Martin+Form+Canoga+Park+Firm&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022220828/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/465935392.html?dids=465935392:465935392&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+24,+1964&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=TRW,+Martin+Form+Canoga+Park+Firm&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 22, 2012|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2 March 2013}}</ref> The holdings of [[Teleregister Corporation]] became part of the new company.

[[File:Bunker-Ramo early logo.svg|thumb|First logo and wordmark]]

The company became a manufacturer of military electronic devices and digital computers including the transistorized BR-133 of 1964, given the military designation '''AN/UYK-3'''.<ref name="AN/UYK-3">http://jproc.ca/rrp/uyk3.html retrieved 2009 Sept 27</ref> It was a supplier of video display terminals to the financial industry. In 1967, the [[Amphenol]] corporation (a manufacturer of electrical connectors) merged with Bunker Ramo. The combined company peaked at number 338 on the Fortune 500 list in 1969.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/snapshots/1969/2825.html |title=FORTUNE 500: Bunker Ramo |website=archive.fortune.com |access-date=2017-11-19}}</ref>

In February 1971, the firm unveiled the first version of the National Association of Securities Dealers' Automated Quotations system, [[NASDAQ]].<ref>The Wizard of Lies; Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, [[Diana B. Henriques]], Times Books, 2011, Kindle Edition, location 1116</ref>

In 1981, it was purchased by Allied Corporation, later [[AlliedSignal]].  It is now part of the [[Honeywell]] group.<ref name="AN/UYK-3"/>

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==See also==
{{Portal|Electronics}}
*{{anl|Joint Electronics Type Designation System}}
*[[List of military electronics of the United States]]

==External links==
* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/trw/Bunker-Ramo_Newsletter_Feb64.pdf Bitsavers.org: ''Bunker-Ramo Newsletter'' (February 1964)] — ''press release for new company''.

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{{Honeywell}}
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