81.   A computer company was interested in buying his shares, Araya later told a newspaper, and he was ready to walk away with a fat profit.

82.   A few have scaled back their ambitions to such undertakings as running Burger Kings in Israel or doing consulting work for a little computer company in the West.

83.   A few weeks after that decision, Digital filed a refund request for wholesale taxes the Massachusetts-based computer company had paid on products sold in Washington state.

84.   A man who works for a computer company put out the word on the Internet.

85.   A number of major computer companies, including Compaq Computer Corp. and Dell Computer Corp., have posted discussions of these problems on their Web sites.

86.   A monthly survey measuring the popularity of shareware programs, which has become an industry yardstick, is produced by a computer software company in Scottsdale called FormGen Corp.

87.   A growing confrontation could prompt computer companies in the United States to cancel orders.

88.   A number of U.S. computer companies, including Microsoft, Oracle and Toshiba, have set up shop there, alongside new Indian giants and smaller start-ups.

89.   A penchant for gambling in Argentina has helped send shares of a small graphic design and computer processing company through the roof.

90.   A pair of computer companies are marketing new applications that allow users to manage e-mail via the telephone.