Apple claims this was the first 64-bit computer sold to the general public.

Well, at least that's what it was like when I worked selling computers about two years ago.

The key to the company's success: it sells computers for less than $600.

This year the figure is expected to rise to 85 percent of personal computers sold to consumers, or 8 million.

Their revolution has been to sell computers and software to everyone.

"We were selling computers, while the customers wanted solutions to business problems," he said.

Sony has stumbled several times trying to sell personal computers.

Probably a salesman of some kind, she thought, traveling around, maybe even selling computers or something like that.

A youth-program director with six years of experience was going to sell computers; she and her family could no longer live on $22,000 a year.

Dell accounts for about 4 percent of the four million computers sold in India.