1.   After making a prototype machine, he approached Bestfoods, the New Jersey-based food giant that owns the Skippy brand, and got a contract.

2.   Despite such stumbles, the Japanese are pressing ahead to perfect Kaiko and other gear, including prototype machines for deep mining.

3.   Motorola showed a prototype CHRP machine that it hoped to start selling in September.

4.   The prototype machines, from IBM Corp. and NEC Corp., are ultralight laptops that seemed to offer solid performance during my brief tinkering session.

5.   Their approach is expected to lead to a prototype machine by April.

6.   The technology behind the prototype machine at Sandia National Laboratories will be transferred to chip manufacturers.