Lawrie went on to lead the remote sensing division of Esri, where he reunited with his classmate Jack Dangermond.
Please visit the main page of ERDAS IMAGINE 2018 on Software Informer. Download popular programs, drivers and latest updates easily. After much success, the company was sold to Intergraph. Remove screen passcode and iCloud activation lock for disabled iPhone, iPad. They decided if red was good enough for Coke, it was good enough for Erdas. The Erdas logo was branded in red one night when Lawrie and Bruce were looking out the window of their new office to see the headquarters of Coca Cola, in downtown Atlanta.
There was much discussion about the product name and the entire company (about 50 employees) weighed in on the new name. Erdas Imagine was released in approximately 1989, I believe. Data was obtained on 9 track tapes, which were delivered to users through the mail, in response to a paper form and paper check, mailed to the data provider. At the time, Erdas was a command line computer package that ran most efficiently on a PDP-11 or Microvax computer, although the software was transitioning to the DOS based personal computer, with a maximum hard drive capacity of 32 MB. Lawrie and Bruce left Harvard to found Erdas, Inc., while Jack founded Esri.
Carl Stienitz, maybe the first professor to teach GIS concepts in the U.S. Both graduated from the Harvard School of Design (Landscape Architecture) under Dr. The company was started by Lawrie Jordan and Bruce Rado, two amazing individuals. At the time it was a start up company in an incubator facility on the campus of Georgia Tech University.
