Company milestones(Chronological table)

2. The Dawn of Fujitsu's Computer Business (1950-1958)

1950

Outbreak of Korean War

  • Begins commercial production of Type 4 telephone set (monthly production reaches 5000 units)

1951

Commercial broadcasting begins in Japan

1952

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation is established

  • Resumes technical cooperation with Siemens
    Image of Director Wada signs an agreement with Siemens AG

    Signing agreement with Siemens AG

1953

Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) begins television broadcasts

  • Restarts manufacture of radio communications equipment

1954


  • Unveils miniaturized M-type carrier device and contributes to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation-led postwar reconstruction of communications infrastructure
  • Unveils Japan's first relay type computer, the FACOM100

1955

Japan's rapid economic growth period begins

1956

  • Ships FACOM128A scientific computer (the Fujitsu's first commercial computer)

1957

Soviet Union successfully launches world's first satellite, Sputnik 1

1958

Tokyo Tower completed

  • Conducts field test of all-transistor switching system installed in Antarctic research ship "Soya"
  • Begins delivery of first transistorized "T-type short-distance" carrier device
  • Develops Japan's first numerically controlled (NC) device, the FANUC201A
  • Opens Japan's first computer showroom in central Tokyo
  • Unveils FACOM200 parametron computer