The Janome 350e makes it easier than ever to do professional looking embroidery on a stand-alone machine.

"When you look long-term, we see the stand-alone machine as an endangered species."

Previously, stand-alone machines would have been too costly to build for limited production runs.

The machines are often part of the set-top box or tuner, but they typically come with less storage space than stand-alone machines.

The product that those representatives are selling is no longer a stand-alone machine but a system that runs on personal computers.

But if you have a favorite phone already, an inexpensive stand-alone machine will give you access to call screening at a very low price.

Typically the site will have an array of stand-alone machines that are each running Web server software.

Later developments in this genre have tended to involve on-line interaction with other players (see below), rather than played on stand-alone machines.

Because of the larger size and build of stand-alone machines, manufacturers are able to put more energy-saving features into the machine.

Of course there were stand-alone machines that couldn't be reached by any of these means.