PFU Limited (株式会社PFU, Kabushiki gaisha Pī Efu Yū) is a Japanese information technology company jointly owned by Ricoh and Fujitsu, formed by the merger of Panafacom and USAC Electronic Industrial in 1987.

[1] It owns a volleyball team formed in 1979 at USAC Electronic Industrial, the PFU BlueCats.

Panafacom was a conglomerate of three Japanese companies, formed by Fujitsu, Fuji Electric and the Matsushita Group on July 2, 1973.

Uchida Yoko [ja], an office equipment trading company, became a distributor of its minicomputers to enter the computer business.

PFU (under Fujitsu brand) has more than 50% share of the worldwide enterprise image scanner market.

It was expensive to enter the American OEM market, so PFU released the Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite which was manufactured by Chicony Electronics.

[13] NEC released the TK-80 microcomputer evaluation kit in 1976, and it became popular among computer enthusiasts and hobbyists in Japan.

[15] It cost ¥700,000 (equivalent to ¥1,066,232 in 2019) with 16 KB of RAM, flat keyboard, monochrome display and cassette tape recorder.