3rd October 2003, 10:36 AM
DID they? They are still selling the systems for less than it costs to make them. They are still loosing money for each unit sold. However, it's the user base that's important.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)