IBM Fujisawa

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)
• 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)