Despite the popularity of the IBM PC in the West during the 1980s, it had shortcomings that prevented it from flourishing in the Japanese market, most of all support for the Japanese language. This ...
About 20 years ago, Americans looking for the leading edge of ultramobility in their laptops would saunter off to Japanese import websites like Dynamism to consider models from Sony, Sharp, NEC, ...
The PasocomMini PC-8801mkIISR is a palm-sized computer that’s designed to look like a classic Japanese computer from the 1980s. Expected to hit the streets in Japan in spring, 2025 for 30,000 JPY ...
Complacency can be deadly. You only have to look at the changeover between the 16-bit and 32/64-bit generations for confirmation of this fact; amazingly, during this period of transition all of the ...
NEC has sold for about US$230 million shares in Chinese computer maker Lenovo it acquired last year when the companies formed a joint venture to produce PCs in Japan. The sale, completed to an unnamed ...