IBM Fujisawa explained

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

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

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

• Fifteen minutes' walk or five minutes' bus ride from Shōnandai Station on Odakyū Enoshima Line

See also

• IBM
• IBM Japan
• IBM Yamato Facility
• IBM Yasu

Notes and References

1. Book: Hensch, Kurt. IBM History of Far Eastern Languages in Computing: National Language Support Since 1961 ; [looking to East Asia]]. 2004. Kurt Hensch. 978-3-937267-03-6. en.
2. Book: Helander, Martin. Design For Manufacturability: A Systems Approach To Concurrent Engineering In Ergonomics. 1992-06-18. CRC Press. 978-0-7484-0009-6. en.
3. 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
4. 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）
5. Web site: 2002-04-16. Hitachi And IBM Agree To Strategic Storage Alliance. 2020-06-07. www-03.ibm.com. en-US.
6. Web site: CSDL IEEE Computer Society. 2020-06-07. www.computer.org.