Product number (P/N): HAYAC1 (HAYAC-1),
Keywords/Tags: HAYAC1 (HAYAC-1) | 1
Date of intro: jul-1962,
Classification: / Computer,
Info: Starting in late 1958, a group of young engineers would often get together after work to discuss business hurdles and their future dreams for the company.
Not satisfied with current television technologies, they wanted to use their newfound knowledge and youthful sensibilities to advance the electronics industry.
One day about six months later, they had a chance to run their ideas past Senior Executive Director SAEKI.
They told him that the future lay in fields such as semiconductors, computers, microwaves, and ultrasound, and they suggested that the company focus its research there.
It turned out that SAEKI had himself long believed that the company would not grow if all it did was assemble products.
In September 1960, about 20 engineers in their mid-twenties were gathered as the founding staff of a research department dedicated to areas such as semiconductors and circuits.
But despite the hopes and passion of these employees, the fact was that the company was sorely lacking in these technologies.
Needing to learn the basics of computers, the calculator group from the circuit research lab spent their days at the offices of Hiroshi OZAKI (later to be an honorary advisor to the company)
and Zen'ichi KITAMURA of the School of Engineering at Osaka University.
This led to the company's development in July 1962 of the HAYAC-1, a small-scale electronic test computer.
Two months later the company commercialized the CTS-1, a voucher printer utilizing a relay calculator