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San Diego Data Processing company history timeline

1980

American Express, which was itself attempting to build a financial services operation, bought First Data Resources in 1980 to perform processing functions.

1983

By 1983 the operation was reaping $24 million in revenues and had become the largest banking data processor in the Southeast.

1984

In March 1984, First Financial paid $2 million for Marion, Illinois-based United Computer Services, Inc., and one month later purchased Financial Systems, Inc.

1985

To attain this status, First Financial continued its rapid pace of acquisitions in 1985, buying four computer data services during the year.

SDSC was founded in 1985 with a $170 million grant from the NSF Supercomputer Centers program.

1987

In October 1987 the company bought the National Bancard Corporation (NaBanco) of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for $48 million.

1988

First Financial ended 1988 with revenues of $423.7 million, an increase of more than 100 percent over the previous year.

1989

By 1989, the station had seen tremendous growth in its role as a leader in naval telecommunications, delivering over 48 million messages in that year alone.

1991

Although First Financial's pace of acquisitions slowed in 1991, its revenues climbed to $1.2 billion.

1993

After receiving a cash settlement from IBM, First Financial completed the sale of BASIS to FIServe, Inc. for $96 million in February 1993.

1994

The paths of First Financial and First Data first crossed in 1994, when each attempted to acquire Western Union Financial Services, the world's leading money transfer company.

1997

First Data Corporation's partnership with Microsoft in 1997 was intended to keep First Data Corporation firmly at the center of this new commercial realm.

First Data Corporation's 1997 sales soared to more than $5 billion.

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