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- The company's principle activities are the sale, supply and maintenance of office/business machines. For many years after its founding the company was the sole importer and distributor of most of the main East German manufactured office machines.
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Busicom Co., Ltd. (ビジコン株式会社, Bijikon Kabushiki-gaisha) was a Japanese company that manufactured and sold computer-related products headquartered in Taito, Tokyo. It owned the rights to Intel's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, which they created in partnership with Intel in 1970.
After the failure of Busicom of Japan in 1974, Broughton & Co. bought the trade name Busicom for the UK from the Japanese, and started to use the name Busicom Business Machines. Calculators from various manufacturers were re-badged with the Busicom name. See below for a more detailed history.
With its venture into electronics Nippon Calculating Machine Corp changed its name to Business Computer Corporation, known as Busicom Corp. In 1968 a joint venture company was set up in the U.S.A. between Broughton & Co. and Busicom Japan to market the now very successful and profitable HL-21 hand calculator into the U.S.A. educational market.
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The Nippon Calculating Machine Corp was incorporated in 1945 and changed its name in 1967 to Business Computer Corporation, Busicom. Due to a recession in Japan in 1974, Busicom became the first major Japanese company in the calculator industry to fail. Originally, they made Odhner type mechanical calculators and then moved on to electronic calculators always using state of the art designs. They made the first calculator with a microprocessor for their top of the line machinesand they were th...
Microprocessor
In order to limit production cost, Busicom wanted to design a calculator engine that would be based on a few integrated circuits (ICs), containing some ROMs and shift registers and that could be adapted to a broad range of calculators by just changing the ROM IC chips. Busicom's engineers came up with a design that required 12 ICs. In April 1968, engineer Masatoshi Shima was tasked with designing a special-purpose LSI chipset, along with his supervisor Tadashi Tanba, for use in the Busicom 14...
Broughtons of Bristol is a company selling and maintaining a broad line of business machines. They used to buy most of their equipment from Busicom and bought their trade name when they went bankrupt in 1974.
Busicom Co., Ltd. (ビジコン株式会社, Bijikon Kabushiki-gaisha) was a Japanese company that manufactured and sold computer-related products headquartered in Taito, Tokyo. It owned the rights to Intel's first microprocessor , the Intel 4004 , which they created in partnership with Intel in 1970.
However the rights to the Busicom name were bought by Broughton's of Bristol in Britain and calculators with the Busicom label, produced by different manufacturers, continue to be marketed.
This model was also sold as the Nippon HL-21 but the company changed its name to Busicom (Business Computer Corporation) in 1967 when it started manufacturing electronic calculators. Broughtons of Bristol were a British company who imported Nippon/Busicom products to the UK.
