That was also the year in which Lin Wei-shan, the third generation of Lins to run the company, took the reins. Both father and son saw the dawning of the information age and began to shift focus away from household appliances. They began bringing in foreign technology, collaborating with major international IT players such as IBM and setting their sights on developing high-tech products.
也是這一年，第 3 代林蔚山接下總經理一職，父子倆看準了資訊時代的前景，逐漸將主力轉出家電業，並且從國外引進技術、與 IBM 等國際資訊大廠合作，專注發展高科技產品，並代理銷售迷你電腦系統、數位式交換機系統。