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In April 1946, an engineer " Tadao Kashio "helped his three younger brothers develop a fully electric calculator. Over a decade later, in June 1957, the brothers Kashio up their business in Japan known as Casio Computer Co. They sell the "14-A, an all-electric compact calculator. In 1965, the company introduced the 001, one of the first desktop calculator in the world with memory functions. Although they are becoming smaller in size, the calculators were still beyond the financial reach of most consumers, while Casio began working on a unit more affordable, the Casio Mini. In August 1972, company unveils world's first personal calculator, mini Casio. The plant of the company to Kofu, Japan will be the first Japanese plant to mass produce electronic calculators. The company will also grow internationally by marketing its products to the United States and Germany. Using the same digital technology, Casio has developed its technology to watch in the early 1970s.
The first digital wristwatch, the Casiotron, was unveiled in November 1974. She was able to view digitally not only time but also the date. A revolution for the time.
 International expansion continued in 1975 when the company launched it's based in London. Casio Taiwan Ltd. was established three years later. An electronic cash register is added to the line in 1976, a desktop computer in 1979, a synthesizer and electronic music, known as Casiotone 201, 1980. Three years later, Casio introduced a handheld LCD TV and calculators the size of credit cards. Casio has devoted more resources to research and development efforts in 1985 to combat increased competition with China for discount prices. The following year, the firm has unveiled a desktop based on Unix. The North American operations have been strengthened with a new office in Canada. Other units were also opened in Hong Kong, South Korea. In Tokyo in 1987, a new series of automatic data processing have been shipped. In late 1980, Casio has been the leading manufacturer of the simulator in terms of market share, and calculators accounted for about 42 cent of turnover. In the early 1990s Casio has sought to expand existing markets by developing new technologies, allowing further diversification within these markets. For example, the company began to expand its market in the music by creating audible devices for use in live performance. Casio has developed a digital piano with a CD player. In 1991, the firm founded Casio electronic devices to begin marketing its components, including miniaturized electronics and LCDs. Casio has also bought a majority stake in Asahi Corp, a communications equipment and electrical equipment manufacturer. News on the complementary products at that time included printers, word processors, and a lightweight LCD TV. Today on the watch market, Casio is a brand known for creating original and useful. watches that only Casio can offer is to contradict the usual view that a watch is only used to tell time. Sections Casio, innovative products are aimed to help people in their daily lives and enrich their lives. Smaller, lighter, with a longer life, the Casio technology imposes standards and revolutionary technology increasingly sharp! Casio is developing real information devices that can record, store and display various forms of data, images, temperatures, contact information and much more. The Casio watches give you so much more than the exact time! Discover watches radio-controlled. With them you always have the correct time. These watches receive a signal at regular intervals. Determined by atomic clocks, the most accurate clocks in the world not setting the time or subsequent adjustments necessary, your Casio watch you're always late. In Germany, the Federal Institute of Physics and Metrology (PTB) in Brunswick, which sets official time in Britain the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, near London, the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology in Fort Collins and the Japan Communications Research Laboratory Tokyo this role. |
