31.  If that turned out to be true, he said, scientists might make computers out of proteins and use them to solve things like the traveling salesman problem.

32.  IBM and Sun, on the other hand, make computers for a living and had no trouble in that department.

33.  IBM, which made the computers, was not interested in offering long-term leases, and Steinberg saw a niche.

34.  In a convention seminar yesterday, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said she has introduced a bill making computer training a requirement for teacher certification.

35.  In the last two years, the manufacturers have tried to slash inventory by making computers only after customers order them, as Dell does.

36.  It also will stop making computers and sell a majority stake in its finance unit.

37.  Inventec Co., which makes notebook computers, helped trigger the fall in electronics stocks.

38.  It may also be important, some specialists say, in making computers that are both more rational and easier to communicate with.

39.  It abandoned retail computer sales several years in favor of a direct-sales strategy, under which it makes each computer to order and sells directly to customers.

40.  It avoided costly inventories of parts and completed machines because it only made computers ordered and paid for in advance.