DIPS-1

The DIPS Project began in 1967, and practical development of the DIPS-1 began in the latter half of 1968, following the DIPS-0 Project. The goal of the project was "to complete both the hardware and software of a large standard information processing system for data communications by March 1973, and to ensure that the system could rival the best foreign machines in terms of system performance and performance/cost ratio". The project was started in April 1969 by a joint research organization comprised of NEC, Hitachi, and Fujitsu under the leadership of the Electrical Communication Laboratories of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation.