Taiwan’s ambitious Acer Corp is not only trying to conquer the US and European markets, it wants to make its mark across the water in Japan, and showed three personal computers at last month’s Harumi Business Show, Kyodo reports from Tokyo: the Acer 1030 is a Japanese-Langauge personal computer compatible with IBM’S PS/2 – only the Model 30 – and go for $2,240 to $3,120, with deliveries starting shortly; the $331m a year company looks for Japanese business of $5.6m this year and $11m next year, and claims to be number 10 in the world ranking of IBM-compatible personal computer makers.
