Word: nec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NEC corporation, one of the world's largest computer communications firms, financed the proposed "International Competition Project" after K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 suggested the idea, said Dr. Koji Kobayashi, NEC chairman...
...NEC also gave a filmed demonstration of one of its newest projects: a small personal computer which works as an electronic translation phone. A person speaking Japanese at one end of the line can be heard in English at the other end and vice versa. "I have been speaking English for 60 years now," Kobayashi said. "And still I have trouble." So he asked his younger engineers to work on the project which will be perfected in the next 20 years...
...your story "Max Troubles for Betamax [Jan. 16], you stated that NEC was no longer planning to build Beta VCR equipment. On the contrary, NEC has only recently entered the VCR market in the U.S. and has been highly successful with its initial Beta product, with new models scheduled for introduction in 1984. NEC is also adding VHS to its VCR line as part of its policy of offering the broadest possible product selection...
Gerald A. Tangney, General Manager Video Products Division NEC Home Electronics (U.S.A.) Inc. Elk Grove Village...
...reporting on the troubles that Japan's Sony Corp. is encountering, TIME stated that companies such as Toshiba and NEC have abandoned Sony's Beta videotape sys tem in favor of the VHS method developed by Sony's archrival Matsushita. This is not true. Toshiba and NEC are continuing to offer the Beta format to their customers. TIME regrets the error...