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'''Librex Computer Systems''' was a short-lived American subsidiary of the [[Nippon Steel|Nippon Steel Corporation]] that manufactured [[Laptop|notebook computers]] from 1990 to 1992.<ref name=Quinlan1991>{{cite journal | last=Quinlan | first=Tom | date=November 4, 1991 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xz0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32 | title=Librex moves to desktop with batch of portables | work=InfoWorld | publisher=IDG Publications | volume=13 | issue=44 | page=32 | via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name=Rockman1996>{{cite journal | last=Rockman | first=Simon | date=June 1996 | url=https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PCW%20199606%20June%20Created%20From%20PCW%20Cover%20CD/page/n91/ | title=Retro Computing | work=Personal Computer World | publisher=Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen | volume=19 | issue=6 | pages=202, 232 | via=the Internet Archive}}</ref>
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==History==
Librex Computer Systems was incorporated in [[San Jose, California]], 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= | first= | date= | 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> 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, Librex's lack of a business partner 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".<ref name=Richards1990 />
==References==
* {{cite journal | editor-last=Bartolik | editor-first=Peter | date=August 27, 1990 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6wpPH35JpIkC&pg=RA4-PA11 | title=Nippon steel enters PC market | work=Computerworld | publisher=IDG Publications | volume=XXIV | issue=35 | page=103 | via=Google Books}}
* {{cite journal | editor-last=Mass | editor-first=Debra Cassens | date=November 1991 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BvJHc73NRKwC&pg=PA97 | title=Of First Impressions: New Products for Attorneys | work=ABA Journal | publisher=American Bar Association | volume=77 | pages=95–97 | via=Google Books}}
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* {{cite journal | last=Howard | first=Bill | date=December 22, 1992 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9TVJ_G_sk8C&pg=PA238 | title=Portable Computers: On the Road | work=PC Magazine | publisher=Ziff-Davis | volume=11 | issue=22 | pages=153–265 | via=Google Books}}
* {{cite journal | last=Krohn | first=Nico | date=November 12, 1990 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DVEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26 | title=Japanese Steel Maker Tries U.S. Notebook Market | work=InfoWorld | publisher=IDG Publications | volume=12 | issue=46 | page=27 | via=Google Books}}
* {{cite journal | last=Howard | first=Bill | date=August 1993 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H53CIZnYLZwC&pg=PA224 | title=The Portable Puzzle | work=PC Magazine | publisher=Ziff-Davis | volume=12 | issue=14 | pages=126–269 | via=Google Books}}
* {{cite journal | last=Lee | first=Yvonne | date=March 16, 1992 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3D0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30 | title=Librex introduces mix, match notebook | work=InfoWorld | publisher=IDG Publications | volume=14 | issue=11 | page=30 | via=Google Books}}
* {{cite journal | last=O'Brien | first=Bill | date=March 12, 1991 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GF_6VuE4h2MC&pg=PT125 | title=Battery-Powered 386SXs and 386DXs | work=PC Magazine | publisher=Ziff-Davis | volume=10 | issue=5 | pages=111–187 | via=Google Books}}
* {{cite journal | last=Levin | first=Carol | date=August 1992 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hqQJaNzN9IcC&pg=PA40 | title=First Looks: Librex T386SX | work=PC Magazine | publisher=Ziff-Davis | volume=11 | issue=14 | pages=40–41 | via=Google Books}}
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