Projects and Activities of the IPSJ Computer History Committee - History of Computing: Learning from the Past - page 55

Only the names of these computers and authors are listed here: HITAC 2010 (S.
Takahashi, T. Uraki), QA-1 (S. Tomita), Lisp machine and Prolog machine of Kobe
University (Y. Kaneda et al), PACS (C. Hoshino), ELIS (Y. Hibino), EVLIS machine
(H. Yasui), FLATS (T. Soma), FACOM

(H. Hayashi), SIGMA-1 (K. Hiraki), PIE
(H. Tanaka), EM-4 (S. Sakai) and SM-1 (T. Yuasa).
The pdf's of those articles maybe obtained from the Virtual Museum web site.

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8.2 “The Trail of Information Processing Technology in Japan” Series

In October 2002, a new series of the computer history related articles started. The
series tried to include much wider topics. The summary of titles and authors are as
follows:

Advances in Kanji/Japanese Processing Technologies: Input/Output Method in the
Early Stage (T. Uraki)

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• Advances in Kanji/Japanese Processing Technologies: Kana-Kanji Transfer Tech-

nology (R. Kobayashi)

• Advances in Kanji/Japanese Processing Technologies: The Birth and Brief History

of the Japanese Wordprocessor (S. Amano, K. Mori)

• Advances in Kanji/Japanese Processing Technologies: Standardization of Coded

Kanji Set (K. Shibano)

• Japanese Semiconductor Technologies for Computers (Y. Tarui)

• History of Design Automation in Japan (A. Yamada)

• Rise and Fall of Plug-Compatible Mainframe (1-3) (S. Takahashi)

• Advance of Computer R&D at NTT (I. Toda, T. Matsunaga)

• History and Deployment of the Information Technology Standardization Activity in

the Information Processing Society of Japan (A. Tojo)

• The Seven Dwarfs and Japanese Computer Makers (1-2) (S. Takahashi)

• MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and Japanese Computer

Makers (S. Takahashi)

• Topics on the Japanese Processing Technologies: The Stories of Japanese

Processing, JEF and OASYS (Y. Kanda)

• Topics on the Japanese Processing Technologies: A History of Japanese Informa-

tion Retrieval Technologies (H. Fujisawa, H. Kinukawa)

• Topics on the Japanese Processing Technologies: Development of Japanese

Processing - BUNGOU, JIPS, M Method Input System (H. Itoh)
These 17 articles were contributed and appeared on the Magazine from October 2002
until January 2004. The pdf's of those articles are placed on the Virtual Museum web
pages.

8.3 Anatomy of Heritage Computers

Of twenty three nominated heritage machines and hardware parts, the older items are
naturally analogue and/or mechanical. It is beyond our understanding to know how
they really worked.