Saturday, May 3, 2008

LITTLE CASTRO LETS CUBANS BUY COMPUTERS FOR THE FIRST TIME

Castro's little brother has decided to let Cubans buy computers. An entire nation discovery Liesure Suit Larry at the same time. This should be interesting.

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 as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.

The gray and black QTECHs, complete with DVD players, bulky CRT monitors and standard-issue black mice and keyboards, are the only model available.

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.

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