Editing Planar Systems (section)

===1980s===
Planar was founded on May 23, 1983<ref>{{cite web | url=https://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detl?p_be_rsn=321182&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE | title=Business Registry Business Name Search | publisher=[[Oregon Secretary of State]] | accessdate=22 March 2022}}</ref> by Jim Hurd, Chris King, John Laney and others as a spin-off from the Solid State Research and Development Group of the [[Beaverton, Oregon]], based Tektronix.<ref>[http://www.indiana.edu/~hightech/fpd/papers/ELDs.html A History of Electroluminescent Displays] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430024805/http://www.indiana.edu/~hightech/fpd/papers/ELDs.html |date=2012-04-30 }} J. A. Hart, Indiana University; S.A. Lenway, and T. Murtha, University of Minnesota September 1999</ref> In 1986, a division spun off from Planar to work on projection technology and formed [[InFocus]].<ref>[http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2009/04/infocus_through_the_years.html InFocus through the years] ''The Oregonian/OregonLive Silicon Forest Blog'' April 13, 2009</ref>