Company milestones(Chronological table)

4. A Wave of International Standardization (1970-1979)

1970

Osaka Expo

  • Fujitsu Information Processing System Laboratory (now known as Fujitsu Solution Square) construction completes.

1971

Dollar Shock

  • Invests in Amdahl Corporation (U.S.)
  • Delivers D10 analog electronic switching system
  • Starts commercial production of Model 600 push-button telephone
  • World's first practical application of "self-holding reed" switches
  • Fujitsu and Hitachi corporation started for development of next generation computer series.

1972

  • Changes corporate logo
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    (Corporate logo 1972-1988)
    Enacts the new corporate logo. It was designed under the concepts of "peace" in blue, "passion" in red, and "purity" in white.

  • Establishes Japan America Institute of Management Science (JAIMS) in Hawaii with the aim of developing business leaders
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    JAIMS

  • FUJITSU FANUC LTD is established. (current FANUC Corporation)
  • Develops Japan's largest pollution monitoring system implemented in Kawasaki city

1973

Japan changes to flexible exchange rate system
First Oil Shock

  • Delivers world's first Single Channel Per Carrier(SCPC) satellite communications system (a data line between the U.S. and Spain)

1974

  • Introduces FACOM M series of mainframe computers

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1975

  • Delivers Amdahl Corporation's 470 V/6 mainframe computer to NASA

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  • Exports Japan's first submarine coaxial cable system (210km between West Germany and Sweden)

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1976

  • Lists stock on Frankfurt Stock Exchange
  • Opens Numazu Complex (now known as Numazu Site) for production of large-scale computers
  • Ships first IBM compatible FACOM M Series computer

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1977

Japanese baseball player Sadaharu Oh hits 756th home run (world record)

  • FACOM230-75 APU, Japan's first supercomputer, developed

1978

Second Oil Shock
Narita International Airport in Japan opens

  • Concludes Joint-venture agreement with Siemens AG in computing products field
  • Receives order from Satellite Business Systems (U.S.) for world's first satellite communications burst modem
  • Commercializes world's first 64-Kbit RAM (dual power supply)

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1979

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation completes nationwide direct dial telephone network in Japan

  • Participates in Bell Labs' commercial viability tests of American-type cellular handsets
  • Apr. Announces Japanese Processing Extended Features (JEF), making it possible to process Japanese kanji characters

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