Nippon Steel Corp’s San Jose, California-based Librex Computer Systems Inc has introduced the industry’s first fully user-configurable notebook computer, the Librex T386SX, with removable hard drives and a PCMCIA card slot for memory and input-output peripherals: it comes with a 40Mb removable drive and 80Mb and 120Mb drives are also available; slot in PCMCIA cards for internal modems, facsimile modems, solid state secondary storage, scanners and other input devices, network cards, and cards to provide multimedia capabilities are expected; the Librex T386SX has 20MHz CPU, 4Mb memory expandable to 12Mb, backlit 9.5 VGA monochrome screen with 64 shades of gray with support for external monitor; $2,800, May.
