1. About Fujitsu
  2. Corporate Profile
  3. History of Fujitsu
  4. Company milestones
  5. Company milestones(Chronological table)

Company milestones(Chronological table)

3. A Decade of Bold Moves (1959-1969)

1959

  • Opens Oyama plant for mass production of telecommunication equipment
  • Delivers first FACOM212 parametron computer to Japan Electronic Industry Devlopment Association (currently JEITA, Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association)

1960

Japanese Cabinet adopts "GNP doubling plan"
Color television broadcast begins in Japan

  • Unveils Japan's first open-loop numerically controlled device

1961

Soviet Union's Vostok 1 is first successful human spaceflight

  • Unveils Fujitsu's first transistor based large-business computer, the FACOM222
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    Transistors

1962

  • Changes corporate logo
    Image of corporate logo (1962-1971)

    (Corporate logo 1962-1971)
    Enacts the new corporate logo using the current name of Fujitsu. By starting full-scale computer manufacturing, Fujitsu reformed internal organization. As established the communications division and the computer division as two divisions, the catchphrase "Communications and Electronics" was written above and below the logo.

  • President Kanjiro Okada advocates "Infinite Growth"
  • Starts delivery of C12MHz vacuum tube coaxial cable carrier devices (2700ch) to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

1963

  • Begins commercial production of Type 600 Telephone
  • Unveils 4MHz coaxial transistorized terminal equipment
  • Exports Japan's first computer, the FACOM212 parametron computer, to Philippines

1964

Tokyo Olympics

  • Delivers Japan's first data communications system, FACOM323, to Nikko Securities Co., Ltd.

1965

  • Unveils FACOM230-10. Fujitsu receives 1000 orders in the first five years, making the FACOM230-10 the best-selling domestically-produced computer in Japan at that time
  • Delivers FACOM230 data communications system to the Japanese Ministry of Labor

1966

Annual production of Japan's electronics industry exceeds 1 trillion yen

  • Begins mass production of integrated circuits(IC) at Kawasaki Plant
  • Opens Nagano Plant for mass production of computers
  • Launches "high reliability" campaign
  • Begins delivery of PCM-24 carrier device
  • The "FACOM Totalizator System" is completed and delivered to the Japan Racing Association, started its deliveries to NRA (Nippon Racing Association), current JRA (Japan Racing Associtation)

1967

Japan's population exceeds 100 million
Environmental Pollution Protection Act goes into effect

  • Formally changes Japanese name to Fujitsu Kabushiki Kaisha (Fujitsu Limited)
  • Establishes New York Representative Office as first office outside Japan
  • Opens Aizu Plant for mass production of acoustic equipment and semiconductor components

1968

In Japan, the number of telephone subscribers exceeds 10 million
Japan's GNP ranks second in the world following the United States

  • Establishes Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. Research and Development Center
  • Establishes Fujitsu California Inc. as Fujitsu Limited's first overseas subsidiary
  • Opens Akashi Plant after Kobe Kogyo Corporation merger
  • Opens Minamitama Plant
  • Releases FACOM230-60 which becomes runaway best seller
  • Implements Nationwide regional bank online system
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    Nationwide regional bank online system

  • Delivers online deposit system to Dai-Ichi Bank, Ltd. (now Mizuho Bank)

1969

America's Apollo 11 lands on lunar surface and first human walks on the moon

  • Exports C400 crossbar switching system to Taiwan
  • Delivers Japan's first submarine repeater (CS-10M, 900ch) to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
  • Completes multiplex radio communication network (2500km) in Malaysia
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