Casio

Casio is a Japanese electronics group based in Tokyo-Shibuya. Among other things, Casio produces digital watches, digital musical instruments with buttons and is the world market leader in pocket calculators.

Whether in the concert hall or in the studio, as a hobby or professional musician, as a soloist or in a professional band – many enthusiastic digital piano and keyboard -players today benefit from the idea of one special man: Toshio Kashio. He was one of the four Kashio brothers who founded the CASIO company in Tokyo, Japan, in the mid-1940s.

Toshio Kashio’s passion for music led to a special concern: to offer electronic musical instruments that music enthusiasts on a budget can afford. Over the past four decades, this has resulted in exciting challenges for CASIO music production To produce the same natural sound with a non-acoustic instrument. To enable the same mechanical joy of playing. And to optimally complement these qualities with the countless technological features that only a digital musical instrument can offer.

At CASIO Music, designers and sound engineers, sound engineers, audio designers and software developers work on product development. But they are not just specialists in music technology. Each of them has mastered the almost magical art of transforming acoustic ideas into breathtakingly beautiful sound. Most of them have turned their passion for music into a profession, so musicality and a good ear are a natural part of their craft.

We owe many now legendary keyboard instruments to the meticulous and detail-obsessed work of these clever design, sound and piano specialists. For example, the first portable electronic keyboard, the CASIOTONE CT-201 from 1980, or the CASIO CTK-520L, the first keyboard with illuminated keys in standard size, from 1996. With CASIO Music, Toshio Kashio’s dream became reality and lives on today in the CASIO range of high-quality hybrid digital pianos, digital pianos and keyboards.

History

In 1946, Tadao Kashio (1917-1993) founded the then still small electronics company Kashio Seisakujo (“Kashio Factory”) in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.

Today’s Casio Computer Co., Ltd. was founded in 1957 to sell products outside Japan. Tadao Kashio and his three brothers Toshio (1925-2012), Kazuo (1929-2018) and Yukio (* 1930) turned the small electronics company Kashio Seisakujo into the world-renowned electronics group Casio. Each brother brought his own unique specialty and strength. Tadao worked in finance, Toshio in development, Kazuo in sales and Yukio in production.

Casio began series production of calculators in 1957. From 1965, the first electronic desktop calculators with memory were produced. In 1974, Casio launched its first digital wristwatch, the Casiotron. In 1984, the first Casio synthesizer, the CZ-101, was marketed. The company has been selling digital cameras since 1995. In 1996, the company introduced its first PDA, the Casio Cassiopeia, with Microsoft Windows CE.

Products

Watches

Casio was one of the first manufacturers of digital wristwatches. The company is known for incorporating many functions into small wristwatches. These include a stopwatch, a digital compass, an altimeter and air pressure gauge, a thermometer, GPS, a digital camera and a remote control. Since 2000, Casio has also offered globally functioning radio-controlled watches and classically designed analog watches. In August 2017, Casio produced its one hundred millionth G-Shock wristwatch, making it the market leader for outdoor watches.

Models:

Casio Sports
Data Bank
Edifice
Felite
G-Shock
Illuminator
Oceanus
Phys
Pro Trek
Sea-Pathfinder
The G
Vintage
Wave Ceptor
WMP1 (with docking station and MP3 player)

Scientific calculators

In 1976, the FX-201P was produced as an early programmable pocket calculator. It could program jump instructions, loops and subroutines. 1/x and the square root were calculated to 10 digits. The other functions were calculated to 8 digits. Current Casio scientific calculators support spreadsheet calculations, numerical solutions of equations, prime factorization and matrix calculations. Results can be processed online using a QR code.

Further products

Casio produces a wide range of electronic products, such as electronic dictionaries, label printers, handheld terminals, cash registers, management support systems, data projectors, molded parts and molds. In addition, Casio is also active in the field of digital cameras, such as the QV series, WQV series and Exilim series. Casio offers a wide range of products, including data and video projectors such as the XJ-S series of super-slim projectors.

The company also has a firm foothold in the PDA and database sector with products such as the Cassiopeia, PV series (Pocket Viewer), SF series and FX series. In addition, it offers a wide range of electronic dictionaries under the EX-word series.

Casio is known for its system products such as POS systems, mobile data collection devices and labeling systems. This also includes CD label printers and label printers.

Musical instruments also play an important role in Casio’s portfolio. These include synthesizers, the legendary Casio VL-1, electronic musical instruments such as Casiotone keyboards as well as Privia and Celviano pianos.

Casio has not only developed a wide range of products, but also TV receivers. One example of this is the Casio TV-800 mobile analog TV receiver. The quality of its products has made Casio a leading company in the electronics industry.

The Casio Loopy, also known as the My Seal Computer SV-100, is a stationary games console from the Japanese company Casio. It was launched exclusively in Japan on October 19, 1995 and is considered to be the first console developed specifically for a female target group. Production of the console was discontinued in December 1998.