IBM Fujisawa—located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan—was a manufacturing and development site of IBM Japan, Ltd., a subsidiary of IBM Corporation.[1]
Fujisawa manufacturing
editIBM Fujisawa was established in 1967.[2] As a manufacturing plant, it produced the following products:
- Tabulating machine
- IBM 1440 computer
- IBM System/360 Model 40 computer
- 2701 and other communications controllers
In 1971, manufacturing of System/360, System/370 and IBM 4300 mainframes moved to the newly opened IBM Yasu in Yasu, Shiga,[3]。
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.[5]
Fujisawa development
editIn 1972, the Fujisawa development lab was established[6] in a new building inside the Fujisawa site. It developed the following hardware and software products:
- For worldwide
- IBM 3767 - Printer terminal under Systems Network Architecture (1974)
- IBM 3276 - IBM 3270 remote display-controller (1975)
- IBM 3101 - ASCII display terminal (1979)
- Microdrive - Miniature 1-inch hard disk drive (1994)
- For Japan and Asia/Pacific
- IBM Kanji System and DBCS solutions to IBM Korea & Taiwan
- IBM 5550 (by the independent business unit absorbed later to development)
- IBM JX (by the independent business unit absorbed later to development)
In 1985, the development lab moved to a new site in Yamato, Kanagawa and was called IBM Yamato development laboratory.
Access
edit- Fifteen minutes' walk or five minutes' bus ride from Shōnandai Station on Odakyū Enoshima Line
See also
edit- IBM
- IBM Japan (ja:日本IBM)
- IBM Yamato Facility
- IBM Yasu (ja:日本IBM野洲事業所)
References
edit- ^ Hensch, Kurt (2004). IBM History of Far Eastern Languages in Computing: National Language Support Since 1961; [looking to East Asia]. Kurt Hensch. ISBN 978-3-937267-03-6.
- ^ Helander, Martin (1992-06-18). Design For Manufacturability: A Systems Approach To Concurrent Engineering In Ergonomics. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-7484-0009-6.
- ^ 半導体から本体まで世界唯一の一貫生産 - 日本IBMが「栄光の野洲」を京セラに売却 (in Japanese)
- ^ ThinkPadのもう1つの故郷、藤沢事業所（2002年10月） (in Japanese)
- ^ "Hitachi And IBM Agree To Strategic Storage Alliance". www-03.ibm.com. 2002-04-16. Archived from the original on January 31, 2008. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
- ^ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2020-06-07.