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Computers Go on Sale to General Public in Communist Cuba

Cubans are getting wired. The island’s communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time recently, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro. A tower-style QTECH PC and monitor costs nearly US$780 (euro505). While few Cubans can afford that, dozens still gawked outside a tiny Havana electronics store, crowding every inch of its large glass windows and leaving finger and nose prints behind.

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