Casio Computer Co., Ltd was founded in 1946 by Tadao Kashio (whose last name gave the company its name) in Tokyo and started its activities with the production of calculators. The principle of a newly-formed enterprise was creative work and assistance.
By September 1965 the have launched desk calculator with built-in memory and started to export them abroad. As soon as in 1967 the company opened their office in Zürich, Switzerland. At this very time Casio broke into the US and Canadian markets. Later, in 1970 the foreign trading company casio was established in New York.
Casio Company continued to deal with computing machinery and during several years have unleashed desk programmed and scientific (fx-1) calculator. They also were first who manufactured and put personal calculators on the market.
In Mai 1974 the company started the line-up of wrist electronic watches CASIOTRON and in 1976 launched an electronic cash register (ECR). In the same year they combined watches and calculator into a single unit of Den-Kuro (CQ-1). This tendency to combine various things appeared in many Casio’s products: wrists are able to store phone numbers and take blood pressure (BP-100), calculators are able to process text (Data-Cal), electronic diary & pocket TV-set with LCD display appear, digital cameras take form of watches, and finally mobiles phones come equipped with worthy digital cameras inside.
In 1987 they produced an electronic photo camera the VS-101. In June 2002 came into existence a credit card-sized ultra slim digital camera with LSD display from the EX line-up. A year later EXILIM Zoom cameras were launched.
In 1988 the company launched a copying machine with the ability of making copies anywhere. In 2001 they made a photo printing kiosk for digital cameras (Let’s Photo).
Casio Computer Co., Ltd manufacturers various types of goods: electronic musical instruments, synthesizers & electric guitars, electronic dictionaries & keypads, portable video recorders and mobile phones, palmtop computers and laptops, printers and copying machines.
