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Nippon Steel EISD, which only operated domestically, influenced the foundation of Librex, as executives within Nippon Steel expressed the desire for the company to have its own name-brand commodity computer.<ref name=Rockman1996 /> Starting in 1986, EISD had formed joint ventures with the American companies [[IBM]], [[Concurrent Computer Corporation]], [[Supertek Computers]], [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Calcomp|CalComp]], and [[3M]] and Japan companies [[Hitachi]] and [[Itochu]] to help develop EISD's hardware and software products.<ref name=Electronic_News1990 /><ref name=Schmitz1990>{{cite journal | last=Schmitz | first=Tom | date=September 9, 1990 | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-09-09-9003150509-story.html | title=Nippon Steel Will Build Laptops in Silicon Valley | work=Chicago Tribune | publisher=Tribune Publishing | page=11E}}</ref><ref name=CBR1990>{{cite journal | last=Staff writer | date=August 23, 1990 | url=https://techmonitor.ai/technology/nippon_steel_forms_librex_to_make_mabket_laptops_in_the_us | title=Nippon Steel Forms Librex to Make, Market Laptops in the US | work=Computer Business Review | publisher=New Statesman Media Group | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011033233/https://techmonitor.ai/technology/nippon_steel_forms_librex_to_make_mabket_laptops_in_the_us | archivedate=October 11, 2022}}</ref> Discussions within Nippon Steel to form an international computer company began in 1987 with the commissioning of EISD to research the manufacture of [[workstation]]s and [[laptop]]s. A slate of notebook computers were developed by EISD in partnership with the EISS laboratories of Tokyo and [[Kanagawa, Japan]]. On Librex's incorporation in June 1990, the general manager of EISD, Toshiji Tanaka, was named president and [[Chief financial officer|CFO]] of Librex and moved to San Jose. The subsidiary employed only 12 in August 1990, with 28 additional positions planned for creation by December; Librex projected 80 jobs in late 1991.<ref name=Electronic_News1990 />
Librex contracted the mass manufacturing of the company's initial product lineup, a duo of notebook computers, to an unnamed American firm.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Sexton | first=Tara | date=August 27, 1990 | url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A8783238/GPS?sid=wikipedia | title=New Nippon Steel Division to Launch Line of Computers | work=PC Week | publisher=Ziff-Davis | volume=7 | issue=34 | page=24 | via=Gale}}</ref> The Librex office in San Jose mostly handled sales and marketing and other operational duties, although the office did posses limited manufacturing facilities.<ref name=CBR1990 /> The Librex 386SX and Librex 286—two notebook computers based on [[Intel]]'s [[Intel 80386SX|80386SX]] and [[Intel 80286|80286]] processors respectively—were unveiled at [[COMDEX|COMDEX/Fall]] in November 1990.
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* {{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=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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