Total revenues generated from Series 3 sales rose to £18.2m this year from £1.9m last, including £2.5m sales from peripheral products.

Many others, making software or peripheral products or cloning the PC itself, followed suit.

They make an even larger percentage of peripheral products, like scanners, monitors and keyboards.

If you are considering an upgrade, note that you can get a discount on Windows 98 or even a free copy by purchasing certain peripheral products.

They can also sell peripheral products such as insurance and can push their own products.

Some of Holtek's range of peripheral products includes the following device categories:

The game's growing success spawned cottage industries and a variety of peripheral products.

The Apple bid includes more than 25 subcontractors supplying peripheral products for the Macintosh.

National Advanced's continued growth will come from peripheral products, such as disk drives, not mainframes, he added.

Gateway was shifting its emphasis to marketing a wide range of peripheral products connected to the Internet or computers along with software and services.