IBM Fujisawa
IBM Fujisawa, located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan, was a manufacturing and development site of IBM Japan, Ltd., a subsidiary of IBM Corporation.
Fujisawa manufacturing
IBM Fujisawa was estblished in 1967. 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,[1]。
In December, 2002, as Hitachi Ltd. bought IBM's harddisk division, IBM Fujisawa became the headquarters and the main plant of Hitachi Global Storage Technology.
Fujisawa development
In 1972, 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 - 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
- Fifteen minutes' walk or five minutes' bus ride from Shōnandai Station on Odakyū Enoshima Line
References
- 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)
See also
- IBM
- IBM Japan (ja:日本IBM)
- IBM Yamato Facility
- IBM Yasu (ja:日本IBM野洲事業所)