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IBM Kanji System was announced in 1979 to support Japanese language processing on the IBM System/360 computers. It was later enhanced by the support of IBM 5550 and DOS/V.

General

The IBM Kanji System was announced in September, 1979, to support Japanese language processing on the IBM System/360 Until that time, the IBM host computer systems in Japan were able to process only the English alphanumeric characters and Japanese half-width Katakana characters.

This announcement in 1979 included the following items: ^[1]

Hardware

Offline input/output
- IBM 5924 T01 Kanji Keypunch (IBM 029 Key Punch with Kanji keyboard}
Online terminals
- IBM 3270 Subsystem
  - IBM 3274 model 52C Control Unit with Kanji keyboad
  - IBM 3278 model 52 Display
  - IBM 3273 model 52 Inkjet Printer
Online printer
- IBM 3800-2 Printing Subsystem

Kanji support software

Operating Systems
Development Languages
- COBOL
- PL/I
DBCS support
- IMS
- CICS
Utility programs

It was later in 1984 enhanced with the support of the IBM 3270 emulation and IBM 5250 emulation by the Japanese PCs, IBM 5550 in 1984 and DOS/V in 1991.

IBM host code

IBM PC code

Effect to the support of other languages

Similar supports became later available for Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese languages.

References

^ "IBM History of Far Eastern Languages in Computing, in 3 Parts" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 27 Number 1 ( January - March, 2005 )

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