FM TOWNS II SN model

Facing up to the certainty of the IT age, the Japanese Ministry of Education and Ministry of Home Affairs (today part of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, respectively) led a deliberate drive to place computers in public schools between 1994 and 1999. This caused a spike in the educational sector’s demand for computers. At the same time, computer use was diversifying beyond computer classes, as students took computers to regular classes and science classes and connected them to various audio and video devices and experimental apparatus. Computer classes also needed computers that didn’t take up space in order to give each student a computer. As a result, conventional desktops no longer met the needs of the educational sector.