11.   Now comes the software.

12.   Since most software now comes on CD and the documentation can go on the CD, the manufacturing cost is about a dollar a program.

13.   Smart people move their files on the Internet and over networks and software comes on CDs. Need a floppy drive?

14.   Software products are coming out almost daily to ease the way, says Joseph Barlett, an analyst with Yankee Group in Boston.

15.   Such software was coming into the house via friends or being downloaded from electronic bulletin boards.

16.   That software would come loaded onto new PCs.

17.   The demand for such products as Windows and Microsoft Office is not expected to abate just because the software comes from two different companies, he said.

18.   The software comes in a suite of four CD-ROMs, all featuring Professor P.T. Presto, who guides children through tutorials with music, animation and humor.

19.   The software you need comes on three floppy disks.

20.   The set-up software comes on a floppy disk.