21.   Cyrix is selling its machines directly.

22.   Dell does well in such a market because eliminating the cost of middle-man distributors allows it to sell quality machines at a lower price than many rivals.

23.   Gateway, which sells its machines via mail order, has gone out of its way to speed up the PC.

24.   He sells pitching machines.

25.   He went to trade shows, where vendors peddled their wares like they were selling drink machines to stadiums.

26.   Hedging its bets, Power Computing recently announced it would sell machines running Microsoft Windows and powered by Intel microprocessors.

27.   I recommend that beginners go to computer stores or companies that specialize in selling used machines.

28.   If those manufacturers are unable to sell their machines in the holiday season, they will be forced to slash prices to move out the inventory, he said.

29.   In Japan, fewer game machines were sold even though they were introduced three months earlier.

30.   In May, Radio Shack added IBM notebook computers to its inventory in the first agreement to sell machines other than its own Tandy brand.