H & R Electronics, Inc. was formed in 1980 by Jere B. Hitchcock, the current President and founder. The purpose of the corporation is to provide a business framework for selling Adcor Electronics tape dialers and other products to the municipal marketplace. Between 1980 and 1990 H & R Electronics, Inc. sold the AS-2B and other products manufactured by Adcor Electronics, Inc. During the later years of this period Adcor discontinued the production of the Mechanical Tape Dialers. Digitized dialers were being developed to replace the mechanical dialers. Since Adcor was not interested in developing the voice digitized dialers, H & R Electronics, Inc. began to develop a product line of digitized telephone dialers. This new breed of dialers had not moving parts. The voice was stored on IC chips in the form of data and retrieved and played back without the problems associated with the mechanical tape units.
The first product H & R Electronics, Inc. offered was an 8-channel unit which has a 2-line LCD display. This unit, the ID-8, was built around the mother board concept and housed in an enclosure 20 x 20 x 6 inches deep. This is still a viable product, even though newer units will replace this unit in the coming years. The second product was the ID-4. This unit is a 4-channel version of the ID-8 with two boards. The newer DD-4 unit is a single board unit housed in a steel enclosure 13 x 16.5 x 4. The single board with a touch tone telephone handset and battery box offered the lower end users an option to the ID-8 units. The newest product is the SD-8 (Super Dialer 8-channel). This unit is much smaller than the DD-4 unit being 10.5 x 7 4. It has a battery backup and enclosure weighing in at a mere 6 pounds. This unit is a double stacked set of boards with a new improved method of storing and retaining the voice messages during power outages. This brings us up to date.