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==History==
Librex Computer Systems was incorporated in [[San Jose, California]], in June 1990;<ref name=Electronic_News1990>{{cite journal | last=Staff writer | date=August 27, 1990 | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_electronic-news_1990-08-27_36_1824/page/n2/ | title=Nippon Steel U.S. Subsidiary Plans CPU Market Entry in '91 | work=Electronic News | publisher=Sage Publications | volume=36 | issue=1824 | page=7 | via=the Internet Archive}}</ref> [[Nippon Steel]] formally introduced it in August 1990.<ref name=Richards1990>{{cite journal | last=Richards | first=Evelyn | date=August 23, 1990 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1990/08/23/nippon-steel-to-open-computer-subsidiary-in-california/8c367b55-51e2-4b3d-9af6-95c9a9b2ff5d/ | title=Nippon Steel to Open Computer Subsidiary in California | work=The Washington Post | publisher=The Washington Post Company | page=C1}}</ref><ref name=New_York_Times1992>{{cite journal | last=Associated Press | date=August 29, 1992 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/29/business/company-news-nippon-steel-quiting-personal-computer-business.html | title=Nippon Steel Quitting Personal Computer Business | work=The New York Times | publisher=The New York Times Company | page=1.35 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526065730/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/29/business/company-news-nippon-steel-quiting-personal-computer-business.html | archivedate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> Librex was the first venture in the United States for Nippon Steel's Electronics and Information Systems Division (EISD), which had sold software and hardware only in Japan.<ref name=Electronic_News1990 /> Librex was forerun by the existence of NS Computer Systems, Inc., a company set up by Nippon Steel in [[Santa Ana, California]], to research the American computer marketplace.<ref name=Furukawa1990>{{cite journal | last=Furukawa | first=Tsukasa | date=August 31, 1990 | url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A9395433/GPS?sid=wikipedia | title=Nippon Plans US Release of Computers | work=American Metal Market | volume=98 | issue=171 | page=4 | via=Gale}}</ref>
The incorporation of Librex came at a time when Nippon Steel, at the time the largest [[steelmaking]] company in the world in terms of sales, was increasingly [[Diversification (marketing strategy)|diversifying]] its operations. Although computer companies investing in Japanese steel companies and vice versa was somewhat commonplace in the turn of the 1990s technology industry—EISD had ties to several American computer companies—Nippon Steel set out Librex to operate independently, which was described as a rarity. Said Susan MacKnight of the Washington-based Japan Economic Institute, no other steel company had "set up a wholly owned subsidiary [in] anything outside the steel business in this country" up to that point.<ref name=Richards1990 /> Along with Librex in the United States, Nippon Steel set up Nippon Steel Computer [[Public limited company|PLC]] in [[Langley, Berkshire]].<ref name=New_York_Times1992 />
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