1.   At first, Jobs conceived Next as a hardware company that would make computer workstations for scientists and educators.

2.   He began his career as a traveling salesman for a hardware company.

3.   We saw some of these tactics directed against us when we were a hardware systems company.

4.   Well, they replied, sometimes the hardware companies modify it.

5.   Major Japanese hardware companies such as Matsushita are already buying substantial interests in the movie world.

6.   And various hardware companies are trying to figure out what a slowdown in the telecommunications industry will mean to them.

7.   Belluzzo also pooh-poohed suggestions that he is not well-suited to Microsoft because all his previous experience is with hardware companies and not with software.

8.   But if the tablet effort succeeds, he said, the company will probably form partnerships with hardware companies to build and sell the systems.

9.   But that requires convincing resellers, who have many different hardware companies to choose from, that Unisys products are superior.