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Japanese Word Processors

 

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YearMonthJapan
1977 05 Sharp developed the industry's first Japanese language word processor prototype .
1978 09 Toshiba announced the JW-10, the first Japanese language word processor.
1979 05 Oki Electric announced the OKI WORD EDITOR-200 Japanese electronic typewriter.
1979 09 Sharp announced the Shoin WD-3000 with the industry's first tablet type entry method.
1980 05 Fujitsu announced a Japanese electronic typewriter with the company's first thumb shift keyboard (The name OASYS 100 was publicly called for suggestions and selected).
1980 05 NEC announced the NWP-20, the company's first standalone sentence processing dedicated Japanese word processor.
1980 05 Oki Electric announced the Lettermate 80 Japanese electronic typewriter.
1980 05 Fujitsu announced a Japanese electronic typewriter with the company's first thumb shift keyboard (The name OASYS 100 was publicly called for suggestions and selected).
1981 05 Hitachi announced the BW-20 (Nickname WordPal 20) as the company's first Japanese word processor.
1982 01 Sharp announced the WD-1000, the first compact word processor in the industry.
1982 02 Oki Electric announced the Lettermate800 Japanese word processor with improved communication and graphing functions.
1982 05 Hitachi announced the BW-10 with innovative components and style that was low-priced and popular.
1982 05 Fujitsu announced the My OASYS, the first Japanese word processor below 1 million yen.
1982 10 NEC announced the VWP-100 Series of voice word processors.
1982 11 Fujitsu announced the OASYS 100G business word processor with an A4 size full screen display.
1982 11 Toshiba announced the TOSWORD JW-1 desktop all-in-one Japanese word processors with a 40 character x 2 line display.
1983 01 Sharp announced the WD-2400 true business word processor.
1983 03 NEC announced a new entry method for Japanese word processors .
1983 05 Hitachi announced the BW-30, a multifunction word processor that is the top of the line machine in the WordPal series and that can create technical documents.
1983 05 Oki Electric announced the Lettermate85 kana to kanji conversion high-performance Japanese word processor that is compact and low-priced.
1983 12 Toshiba announced the TOSWORD JW-7D, the company's first desktop Japanese word processor with a built-in hard disk drive.
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