Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
カシオ計算機株式会社

Type	Public
Traded as	TYO: 6952
Industry	Electronics
Founded	1 June 1957 (Casio Computer Co., Ltd.) April 1946 (Kashio Seisakujo)[1]
Headquarters	Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan[2]
Key people	Kazuo Kashio (President) Hideaki Terada (Chairman and CEO)
Products	Watches, digital cameras, electronic calculators, electronic musical instruments, mobile phones
Revenue	$4.616 billion (2010)
Employees	11,336 (2010)
Website	world.casio.com

Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (カシオ計算機株式会社, Kashio Keisanki Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a multinational electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, cameras, musical instruments and watches. It was founded in 1946, and in 1957 released the world's first entirely electric compact calculator.

History[link]

Casio's world headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo

Casio was established in April 1946 by Tadao Kashio, an engineer specializing in fabrication technology. Kashio's first major product was the yubiwa pipe, a finger ring that would hold a cigarette, allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its nub while also leaving the wearer's hands free. Japan was impoverished immediately following World War II so cigarettes were valuable, and the invention was a success.

After seeing the electric calculators at the first Business Show in Ginza, Tokyo in 1949, Kashio and his younger brothers used their profits from the yubiwa pipe to develop their own calculators. Most of the calculators at that time worked using gears and could be operated by hand using a crank or using a motor (see adding machine). Kashio possessed some knowledge of electronics, and set out to make a calculator using solenoids. The desk-sized calculator was finished in 1954 and was Japan's first electro-mechanical calculator. One of the central innovations of the calculator was its adoption of the 10-key number pad; at that time other calculators were using a "full keypad", which meant that each place in the number (1s, 10s, 100s, etc...) had nine keys. Another innovation was the use of a single display window instead of the three display windows (one for each argument and one for the answer) used in other calculators.

In 1957 Casio released the Model 14-A, sold for 485,000 yen,^[3] the world's first all-electric compact calculator, which was based on relay technology. 1957 also marked the establishment of Casio Computer Co. Ltd.

In the 1980s, its budget electronic instruments and home keyboards gained huge popularity. The company also became well known for the wide variety and innovation of its wristwatches. It was one of the earliest manufacturers of quartz crystal watches, both digital and analog. It also began selling calculator watches during this time. It was one of the first manufacturers of watches that could display the time in many different time zones and of watches with temperature, atmospheric-pressure, altitude, and even GPS position displays.

A number of notable digital cameras firsts have been made by Casio, including the first consumer digital camera with an LCD screen, the first consumer 3 megapixel camera, the first true ultra-compact model, and the first digital camera to incorporate ceramic lens technology.

Timeline of product releases[link]

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• 1957 Casio releases the Model 14-A, the world's first all-electric compact calculator.
• 1965 The 001 calculator is released.
• 1972 The release of Casio's personal calculator. The Casio "Mini" sells for 12,800 yen, going on to sell over 10 million units.
• 1974 The Casiotron, a watch that features a fully automatic calendar, including month lengths and leap years, is released.
• 1980 Casio releases its Casiotone keyboard instrument.
• 1983 The first G-Shock watch, the DW-5000C, is released.
• 1985 Casio launches its first professional synthesiser, the CZ-101.
• 1991 The F-91W digital watch, retro design with alarm and stopwatch, is released.
• 1995 The Illuminator/Foxfire backlight is released. The DW-5600E was announced as the first G-Shock watch with a full EL LCD panel.
• 1995 The QV-10, the world's first digital camera that includes a TFT display, is released.
• 2000 The WQV-1, the world's first wristwatch with digital camera is released.
• 2002 The EX-S1, the first Exilim digital camera is released.
• 2007 The OCW-S1000J, dubbed the Oceanus "Manta", is released, being the world's thinnest solar-powered chronograph at approx. 8.9 mm in thickness.
• 2011 Casio releases the Casio Prizm (fx-CG10/fx-CG20), a full-color graphing calculator.

Chronology of Selected Main Products^[4]

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Products[link]

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Casio's products include calculators, watches, cash registers, illuminators, digital cameras (Exilim Series), film cameras, laptop and sub-notebook computers, mobile phones, electronic keyboards, PDAs (E-Data Bank), electronic dictionaries, Digital Diaries, computer printers, clocks, and portable televisions.

Today, Casio is most commonly known for durable, large sized watches. Especially popular are its dual function (LCD and analog) watches, some of which, called Wave Ceptors, receive radio signals daily from an atomic clock to keep accurate time.

Watches[link]

• G-Shock
  • MR-G
  • Master of G
    • Frogman(Shock Resist & ISO 200M Water Resist)
    • Riseman(Shock Resist & Twin Sensor)
    • Mudman(Shock Resist & Mud Resist)
    • Gulfman(Shock Resist & Rust Resist)
  • MT-G
  • GIEZ
  • Original
  • Standard
• Oceanus
  • Smart Access Model
  • Manta
  • Cachalot
  • Digtal Analog Combination
  • Classic Line
  • Ladies Line (Japan)
• Casio Sport
  • Pro Trek ( Asia / Europe / Other Areas ) / Pathfinder ( USA / Canada )
  • PHYS
  • Sea-Pathfinder
  • Others
• Edifice
• Baby-G
• Sheen (Asia)
• Regular
  • Combination
  • Data Bank
  • e-DataBank
• Classic
  • Analog
  • Digital
  • Analog-Digital
• Wave Ceptor

Scientific calculators[link]

• Graphing
  • FX-9860G / GII / SD
  • FX-9860G Slim
  • ClassPad 300 Plus / 330
  • Algebra FX 2.0 Plus
  • FX 1.0 Plus
  • CFX-9850GC Plus
  • CFX-9850GB Plus
  • CFX-9800G
  • FX-9750G Plus / GII
  • FX-8500G, 8000G
  • FX-7500G, 7400G Plus / GII
  • FX-7000G
  • VI-9850GB Plus
  • RM 7000/9000
• Programming
  • FX-5800P, 3950P, 3650P, 50F PLUS, 50F
  • FX-4500PA
  • FX-5500LA, 5500L
  • FX-3600P
  • FX-3900PV
  • FX-4800P
  • FX-850P
  • FX-702P
  • FX-603P, 602P
  • FX-502P, 501P
• "Natural Display"
  • FX-991ES, 570ES, 115ES
  • FX-991ES Plus,
  • FX-350ES, 300ES, 85ES, 82ES, 83ES, 500ES
  • OH-300ES
• V.P.A.M. / S-V.P.A.M. / Two-line, Multi-replay
  • FX-991MS, 570MS, 115MS, 912MS (Japan), 100MS, 85MS, 350MS, 82MS, 820MS, 95MS
  • OH-300MS
  • FX-82TL, 83W, 85W, 85WA, 300W, 350TL, 911W, 270W, 270W PLUS, 83WA
  • FX-991W, 570W, 115W, 100W, 115WA
• V.P.A.M.
  • FX-992S, 991S, 570S, 115S, 100S, 122S
• LCD (One-line)
  • FX-65 (True fraction)
  • FX-901
  • FX-82B, 82SUPER, 250D, 82C, 82D, 82LB
  • FX-82SX, 82 SOLAR
  • FX-991D, 570D, 115D, 100D, 570AD, 570CD
  • FX-2000, 2500
  • FX-82, 82L
  • FX-570, 100, 350, 77
  • FX-992V, 992VB, 85V
  • FX-180P, 390PV (Program)
  • FX-4000P, 3500P, 3800P (Program)
  • AQ-1000, 1500
• VFD (Digitron) display
  • FX-1, 10, 17, 19, 20, 21, 29, 39, 101
  • FX-201P (Program)

Electronic calculators[link]

• LCD display
  • Desk calculator
    • DM-1600S, 1400S, 1200MS; DF-120MS; DS-120TV; JF-120MS; JW-120MS; MW-8V, 5V
  • Pocket calculator
    • SL-450L; SL-760LB, 787TV (Card); HL-122TV
    • LC-78, 78G (Card)
  • Printing calculator
    • HR-8TM, 100TM
• VFD (Digitron) / LED display
  • Desktop calculator
    • AS-8; 101E; 001
  • Pocket calculator
    • AL-8, 8S; 803MR; CQ-1; J3; Mem8R; A1; M1; MINI

Other[link]

Headquarters[link]

• 6-2, Hon-machi 1-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-8543, Japan

Gallery[link]

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  Casio fx-7000G, the world's first graphing calculator

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  An old Casio calculator

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  QV-10 Digital camera

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  Casio F-91W Digital watch

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  EX-S600 Digital camera

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  Au W31CA Mobile phone

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  DW5600C A G-Shock watch

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  DW-5600E-1V One of the first Illuminator watches

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  Casio PRG 60 AVER Triple Sensor Watch

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  Casio "Wave Ceptor" Radio-Synchronized Watch

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  Casio Tough Solar "Wave Ceptor" watch

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  Pro Trek Triple Sensor Watch

• Casio Solar Scaled.jpg

  Casio "G-Shock" with "Tough Solar" watch

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  Casio EV-SP3900 Electronic dictionary

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  fx-991MS Scientific calculator

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  Casio Edifice EFA-111D-7AV watch with 10-year battery life

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  Casio fx-115ES Scientific calculator with Natural Display

• Casio f-94w left rotate a4 2b.jpg

  Casio F-94W Digital watch

• Casio fx-992VB 2e.jpeg

  fx-992VB Scientific calculator

See also[link]

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• Tandy Corporation for the Zoomer PDA

References[link]

External links[link]

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