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Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (Japanese:カシオ計算機株式会社 Kashio Keisanki Kabushikigaisha) is an electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in the Japanese capital, Tokyo. Casio is better known for their calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras and watches. Around 1957 Casio released the world's foremost completely electronic compact calculator.

History
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When seeing a electrical calculators at the 1st Business Indicate around Ginza, Tokyo in 1949, Kashio and his immature brothers utilized their gains from either a yubiwa pipe to respond with their have calculators. Virtually all of the calculators at that period worked applying gears & can be operated by hand utilizing the crank or even utilizing the motor. Kashio got the bit of noesis of electronics, & placed bent on produce a calculator utilizing solenoids. A desk-sized calculator was finished around 1954, sold for 485,000 yen and was Japan's first electronic calculator. One of the central innovations of the calculator was its adoption of the X-key blunt pad; at that instance more calculators were utilizing a "full keypad", which intended that every place in the total (1s, 10s, Hundreds, etc...) got nine keys. An additional innovation was a utilise of a single shopwindow instead of the iii display windows (1 for every argument & one for the guide) utilized inside more calculators.

also marked the establishment of Casio Computer Co. Ltd.

Timeline of important product releases
1957 Casio releases the Exemplary 14-The, the world's number one whole electrical compact calculator 1965 The 001 calculator is released 1972 The release of Casio's personal calculator, a "Casio Mini" sells for 12,800 yen, running in to sell assibilate 10 million units 1974 The Casiotron, the observe that features a fully automatic calendar, including year lengths & leap years, is freed. 1980 Casio releases their Casiotone musical keyboard. 1983 The first G-Shock watch, the DW-5000C, is freed. 1985 Casio launches its first agency synthesiser, a CZ-101. 1995 The QV-10, the world's first digital camerthe that includes a TFT display, is freed.

Products
Calculator Cash register Clock Digital camera - Exilim Series Laptop Mobile phone Musical keyboard PDA Printer Quartz clock Sub-notebook Watch Wordtank

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