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- <text id=93TT2367>
- <title>
- Feb. 01, 1993: Dragged into Battle
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- BUSINESS, Page 20
- Dragged into Battle
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Japan's NEC decides to compete in the low-priced-computer market
- </p>
- <p> The initial strategy was to stay above the fray. As American
- firms like Compaq and IBM brought low-cost personal computers to
- its shores, NEC, Japan's foremost personal computer
- manufacturer, controlling about 50% of the domestic market,
- loftily insisted that quality should take precedence over cost.
- But the price pressure got to the company. NEC has announced a
- new low-priced line, including one model for $1,740, about half
- the price of an earlier comparable machine.
- </p>
- <p> Aggressive American manufacturers, who currently have
- about 15% of the Japanese PC market, quickly countered NEC's
- move with more slugging. IBM, together with the Japanese
- office-equipment maker Canon, announced the development of a
- notebook PC with a built-in printer that they would sell for
- $2,380. Fast-growing Dell Computer opened a subsidiary in Tokyo
- and began its famed direct sales to customers. In Dell's line:
- a PC for $780.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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