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Historical Computers in Japan

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YearMonthJapanMonthWorld
1964 02 Hitachi & Japan Railroad developed the seat-reservation system, MARS-101 04IBM annonced IBM S/360
1964 04 NEC announced an economical small computer, NEAC-2200   
1964 05 Fujitsu announced a medium (scale) general purpose computer, FACOM 230(later renamed to FACOM 230-30)   
1964 09 Hitachi developed HITAC 5020, the first large general purpose computer in Japan   
1964 10 Toshiba developed a digital scientific computer(micro -programming), TOSBAC 3400 with Univ. of Kyoto   
1964 10 Toshiba made a contract of technological support by GE   
1964 11 Electric Computer Technology Research Association developed a very large computer, FONTAC   
1965 03 ETL developed the large transistor-computer, ETL Mark VI 04IBM announced IBM S/360 model 65, 75
1965 03 Fujitsu announced a small business computer, FACOM 230-10   
1965 05 NEC announced NEAC series 2200, which was the first one-machine-concept model in Japan   
1965 05 Bank of Mitsui began to operate the online-banking system   
1965 09 Hitachi announced medium and large, general purpose computer, HITAC 8000 series   
1965 11 Toshiba announced a digital business-computer (micro-programming), TOSBAC-5100   
1965 12 Hitachi: Announced the HITAC-8100 samll business coomputer.   
1966 01 Mitsubishi Electric announced a family-concept computer, MELCOM3100 series   
1966 10 NEC developed NEAC series 2200 model 500, a large scale general purpose computer which used IC's in full scale first in Japan.   
1966 10 Japan Software Co.Ltd. was established by NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu   
1966 12 VHSCS(Very High Speed Computer System)project started   
1967 08 Hitachi announced HITAC 8210, the medium-scale, general purpose computer using integrated circuits   
1967 12 Oki-Univac Co., Ltd. developed OUK9400, adopted the disk operating system, builded with integrated circuits   
1968 01 Osaka Univ. began to operate the time sharing system, MAC system first in Japan  IBM developed IBM S/360 model 85(the first cache memory model)
1968 03 Fujitsu developed a large general purpose computer, FACOM 230-60 using integrated circuits(supporting multiprocessor system)   
1968 08 Fujitsu announced a medium and large scale general purpose computer built with integrated circuits, FACOM 230-25, 35 and 45   
1968 10 NTT made a trial experiment of cooperative use of TSS by DIPS-0 multi processor   
1968 11 NEC announced a very large TSS computer, NEAC series 2200 model 700   
1969 04 NTT, NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu began to do cooperative research about the large data-communication computer, DIPS-1   


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