IBM Fujisawa
# 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 established 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,。

* IBM Personal System/55
* IBM ThinkPad
* 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.

## Fujisawa development

In 1972, the 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
