31.  Once it is installed -- this often happens at the store or factory before you get your computer -- they usually work fine.

32.  Peer pressure may also force the issue of getting a computer at home.

33.  Rather than go through retailers and middlemen, more buyers want to get their computers directly from the manufacturer.

34.  Several years ago I got a computer with a built-in Iomega Zip drive.

35.  Some schools, Ms. Wilkins acknowledged, are so crowded that they have no rooms for labs, and so it is unclear when they will get computers.

36.  Somewhere between there and here, somebody else got the computer.

37.  The first, of course, was getting a computer at home.

38.  The kids bug us sometimes about getting a computer, because most of their friends have one.

39.  The organization plans to ask technology companies for help in getting more computers to researchers in developing countries, she said.

40.  The power outage lasted more than three days, and it took another three days to get the computers working.