But in recent years Compaq has come roaring into the big-ticket computer market with a line of products based on standard microprocessors from Intel running the standard Windows NT operating system from Microsoft.
Other product categories that showed a strong performance were event tickets, computer hardware and books/magazines.
I don't know what I will be doing yet, but I sent it back with my areas of expertise: ticketing, computers, venue services and sports".
Among items seized during the arrests were 100 tickets, computers, US dollars, mobile phones and documents.
Among items seized during the arrests earlier this week were 100 tickets, computers, US dollars, mobile phones and documents.
The new legislation, according to the state's website, makes the use of ticket bots (computer software that can bypass the maximum number of tickets someone is allowed to purchase) a class A misdemeanor, and also penalizes people who knowingly resell tickets obtained using bots.
Such interline e-ticketing bridges computer reservation systems, allowing access to electronically stored itineraries so one airline can honor another's e-ticket.
Not exactly an enticing offer -- and hardly one you would expect from a man who was the Russell Stover Candy salesman of the year in 1981 and, four years later, the designer of a ticket-sale computer system that led to the formation of Ticketmaster.
E-commerce analysts have long expected the rate of online returns to rise, at least modestly, because Internet shoppers initially tend to buy safe items, like books, airplane tickets and computers.
Ticketmaster has spent $15 million to $20 million to outfit almost 700 stadiums, arenas, theaters and concert halls in this country and Canada with bar-code scanners that read and authenticate the tickets and computers that capture information such as which seats are filled and which doors have the most traffic, Mr. Moriarty said.
It then sells tickets through its own telephone operators and a network of affiliate vendors (usually music stores with a ticket printer and computer link).
