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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" 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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