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Welcome to Northstar
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Northstar began in 1970 as Digital Marine Electronics Corporation (DMEC), with only a few hundred dollars and a handful of energetic engineers housed in the Civil Air Terminal at Hanscom Field Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts. Its founder, Charles Malaquias, whose father was a Provincetown, Massachusetts, commercial fisherman, had sought to make his father's life easier. From this quest came the introduction of the first automatic Loran-A navigator for commercial fishermen: the Northstar 2000.
Following the Northstar 2000 was the Northstar 6000, the world's first reliable, automatic Loran-C navigator, and the company was firmly established in the design and production of marine navigators.
In those early days, the company was entirely product-driven, a focus that actually meant customer-driven, since DMEC was trying to solve real problems for real people.
