Furthermore, we have to ask why Apple shipped computers with these capabilities disabled in the first place.

Earlier this month, I.B.M. introduced a service that allows individuals and small businesses to ship old computers to a recycling center.

Mr. Calimari, 30, who founded his company four months ago and started shipping computers two weeks ago, disagreed.

Compaq recently began shipping computers that use chips made by Advanced Micro.

Under the old rules, companies needed to obtain individual export licenses to ship computers that run faster than 10,000 Mtops to those nations.

Yesterday, concerns that Dell Computer may be shipping fewer personal computers in the current quarter drove its shares down 5.9 percent, or $2.375, to $37.875.

They contacted local companies and discovered that it was viable to ship computers to Ghana, as a charity.

For instance, Dell shipped computers to customers in three boxes, one each for the computer, the monitor and the peripherals.

A Hewlett-Packard spokesman said the problem might cause some delay but would not derail its plans to begin shipping 486-based computers by the end of the quarter.

This can be very difficult because it is nearly impossible to ship computers over to Costa Rica because of legal regulations.