IBM Fujisawa—located in

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—was a

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and development site of IBM Japan, Ltd., a subsidiary of

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Fujisawa manufacturing

IBM Fujisawa was established in 1967. As a manufacturing plant, it produced the following products: *

Tabulating machine The tabulating machine was an electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the U.S. Census, 1890, 1890 U.S. Cens ...

IBM 1440 The IBM 1440 computer was announced by IBM October 11, 1962. This member of the IBM 1400 series was described many years later as "essentially a lower-cost version of the 1401", and programs for the 1440 could easily be adapted to run on the IBM 14 ...

computer *

IBM System/360 The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978. System/360 was the first family of computers designed to cover both commercial and scientific applicati ...

Model 40 computer * 2701 and other communications controllers In 1971, manufacturing of

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and

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mainframes moved to the newly opened IBM Yasu in

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,。 *

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In December, 2002, as Hitachi Ltd. bought IBM's hard disk division, IBM Fujisawa became the headquarters and the main plant of Hitachi Global Storage Technology.

Fujisawa development

In 1972, the Fujisawa development lab was established in a new building inside the Fujisawa site. It developed the following hardware and software products: ;For worldwide *

IBM 3767 IBM 3767 Communication Terminal is a serial printer terminal that employed dot matrix print-head technology and, for the first time, the Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) communications protocol set under IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA ...

- Printer terminal under

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(1974) * IBM 3276 -

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remote display-controller (1975) *

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display terminal (1979) *

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- Miniature 1-inch

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(1994) ;For Japan and Asia/Pacific *

IBM Kanji System The IBM Kanji System was announced in 1971 to support Japanese language processing on the IBM System/360 computers. It was later enhanced by the support of IBM System/34, IBM 5550 and DOS/V. General The IBM Kanji System became available in a series ...

and

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solutions to IBM

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(by the independent business unit absorbed later to development) *

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(by the independent business unit absorbed later to development) In 1985, the development lab moved to a new site in

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and was called IBM Yamato development laboratory.

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* Fifteen minutes' walk or five minutes' bus ride from

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