IBM Fujisawa
{{Short description|Subsidiary of IBM Corporation}}
IBM Fujisawa—located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan—was a manufacturing and development site of IBM Japan, Ltd., a subsidiary of IBM Corporation.{{Cite book|last=Hensch|first=Kurt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zOQaxbxQzgC&dq=IBM+Fujisawa,+subsidiary+of+IBM&pg=PA66|title=IBM History of Far Eastern Languages in Computing: National Language Support Since 1961; [looking to East Asia]|date=2004|publisher=Kurt Hensch|isbn=978-3-937267-03-6|language=en}}
Fujisawa manufacturing
IBM Fujisawa was established in 1967.{{Cite book|last=Helander|first=Martin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hU8SHRRZ0JMC&dq=IBM+Fujisawa,+1967&pg=PA23|title=Design For Manufacturability: A Systems Approach To Concurrent Engineering In Ergonomics|date=1992-06-18|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-7484-0009-6|language=en}} 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,[https://tech.nikkeibp.co.jp/it/article/COLUMN/20050830/220293/ 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)。
- IBM Personal System/55
- IBM ThinkPad[https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2002/1023/tp08.htm ThinkPadのもう1つの故郷、藤沢事業所（2002年10月）] (in Japanese)
- Harddisk
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.{{Cite web|date=2002-04-16|title=Hitachi And IBM Agree To Strategic Storage Alliance|url=https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/790.wss|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131221403/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/790.wss|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2008|access-date=2020-06-07|website=www-03.ibm.com|language=en-US}}
Fujisawa development
In 1972, the Fujisawa development lab was established{{Cite web|title=CSDL {{!}} IEEE Computer Society|url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2005/01/man2005010038/13rRUwciPhb|access-date=2020-06-07|website=www.computer.org}} 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
- Fifteen minutes' walk or five minutes' bus ride from Shōnandai Station on Odakyū Enoshima Line
See also
- IBM
- IBM Japan (:ja:日本IBM)
- IBM Yamato Facility
- IBM Yasu (:ja:日本IBM野洲事業所)
References
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