IBM Fujisawa

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.[1]

## Fujisawa manufacturing[edit]

IBM 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]。

* IBM Personal System/55
* IBM ThinkPad[4]
* 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.[5]

## Fujisawa development[edit]

In 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)

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]

1. ^ 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.
2. ^ Helander, Martin (1992-06-18). Design For Manufacturability: A Systems Approach To Concurrent Engineering In Ergonomics. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-7484-0009-6.
3. ^ 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)
4. ^ ThinkPadのもう1つの故郷、藤沢事業所（2002年10月） (in Japanese)
5. ^ "Hitachi And IBM Agree To Strategic Storage Alliance". www-03.ibm.com. 2002-04-16. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
6. ^ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2020-06-07.