Mitsubishi Corp has tied up with Madge Computer Systems Ltd of Chalfont St Giles, Buckingshire to market Madge’s local area network board in Japan: fitted into an NEC Corp personal computer, still the top-selling machine in Japan, the board establishes PC-9801 micro-to-mainframe links to IBM hosts; the board will sell for equivalent of between $1,150 and $1,300, and Mitsubishi expects to make $1.2m in revenue from the Madge board alone; many large Japanese companies have both IBM mainframes and NEC personal computers, but up until now there has been no efficient way to connect them – NEC and IBM sell competing and incompatible local area networking systems.
