1984

Cronus Industries, Inc., a Texas company, purchased CESI in 1985 and merged it with their ballot printing subsidiary, Business Records Corporation (BRC).

July 1984: BRC acquired Data Management Associates of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a closely-held concern that supplied county governments with computer software and services, and acquired David G. Carney Co., a closely-held San Antonio firm that marketed recordskeeping services. Then it purchased the assets of C. Edwin Hultman Co., a closely-held Pittsburgh company that provided county-government information services.

November 1984: BRC acquired Western Data Services Inc., a firm that provided on-line computer services to several hundred county and municipal governments, school districts and other governmental agencies in Texas.

November 1984: BRC acquired Contract Microfilm Services and Business Images Inc.