first PCs sold in Cuba

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5-7-2008 2:05 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4319e2ea-8fb4-4e39-9106-8a987a4c5807/29889563-7F92-4604-91F6-D8BC83433C28/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_COMPUTERS?SITE=PASCR&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-05-03-03-37-26" href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_COMPUTERS?SITE=PASCR&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-05-03-03-37-26" style="font-size: 11px;">hosted.ap.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_COMPUTERS?SITE=PASCR&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-05-03-03-37-26">     HAVANA     (AP) -- Cubans are getting wired. The island's communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, ending a ban on PC sales</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_COMPUTERS?SITE=PASCR&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-05-03-03-37-26"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/hosted.ap.org/img/3DFA83D5-0197-4A3C-8B59-58A520106A7A" alt="AP Photo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_COMPUTERS?SITE=PASCR&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-05-03-03-37-26">While few Cubans can afford that, dozens still gawked outside a tiny Havana electronics store, crowding every inch of its large glass windows</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_COMPUTERS?SITE=PASCR&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-05-03-03-37-26"><P class="ap-story-p">"Look at that!" murmured Armando Batista as he pressed against the window. Although he can't afford to buy one, he said, "these are good for a start."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_COMPUTERS?SITE=PASCR&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-05-03-03-37-26">The Cuban PCs have Intel Celeron processors with 80 gigabytes of memory and 512 RAM and are equipped with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. Both could be violations of a U.S. trade embargo, but not something Washington can do anything about in the absence of diplomatic relations with Havana</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_COMPUTERS?SITE=PASCR&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-05-03-03-37-26">Clerks said the PCs were assembled by Cuban companies using parts imported from China</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_COMPUTERS?SITE=PASCR&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-05-03-03-37-26">most Cubans are banned from accessing the Internet at home. So many of these new computers may never be connected to the Web.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/29889563-7F92-4604-91F6-D8BC83433C28/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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