Norman Gage, Jr., the founder of Georgia Time Recorder, began his education in the time clock business at the Simplex Time Recorder factory in Massachusetts. There he was influential in the engineering of the solid-state master clock system.

In 1974, he was transferred to a field office in Atlanta where his time clock, master clock and fire alarm education continued as he sold and installed systems in new buildings such as the Peachtree Plaza Hotel, CNN, county school systems, grocery stores, golf clubs, athletic clubs, hospitals, manufacturing facilities and more.

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In 1982, Norman started Georgia Time Recorder with the home office located in downtown Norcross near the train depot. Almost immediately, GTR developed relationships with clients such as Gwinnett County Public Schools and surrounding school districts, Northside Hospital Gwinnett and their other locations. Other notable customers and segments that were early staples of GTR were Big Star Grocery Stores, Georgia Expo, Formax Manufacturing, Discovery Point Daycare, Piggly Wiggly grocery stores, Gwinnett Greenhouse and many other manufacturing facilities, restaurants and hospitals.