However, the 88000 was already in production; Data General was shipping 88k machines and Apple already had 88k prototype machines running.

ASM Lithography Holding said it now expected to ship 10 percent to 25 percent fewer machines in 2001 than it did last year.

It has also been slow in reacting to the threat posed by rival PC manufacturers shipping similar machines at lower prices.

The Federal Government and 19 states offer as evidence of antitrust activities Microsoft's contracts prohibiting computer makers from shipping machines with the Windows desktop altered in any way.

The Japanese consumer electronics company was scheduled to ship machines to the United States in late April.

According to an August 1999 article in Entrepreneur Magazine, the company is "expanding into South America and has already shipped machines to other regions around the world."

A Japanese Foreign Ministry official explained that Toshiba Machine was widely believed when it told MITI it had merely shipped two-axis machines.

He said that Apple was managing a tricky transition well, and, alone among large personal computer companies, shipped more machines in the quarter.

The Magnuson M80 range was available from the late 1970s and enjoyed limited success at a time when IBM struggled to ship machines.

It is ahead of Compaq in its ability to ship partly built machines to resellers for final assembly and is rapidly regaining share.