iQon Technologies Ltd was a manufacturer of
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and notebook computers and
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based in
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. The company marketed computers through retailers across the
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and exported to
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and
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iQon Technologies was founded in 1994 under the name ROMAK Computers by Dermot McElroy, Lars Krull and Patrick Rooney.
The company was sold in 1997 to US world wide distributor CHS ELECTRONICS Inc.
After the collapse of CHS ELECTRONICS Inc.
