Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public (Update)

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Cubans look at computers through a store window in Havana Friday May 2 2008. Computers went on sale Friday to the general public in communist Cuba with several dozen people lining up outside a major store to buy or just gawk at them as the latest sm ...
Cubans look at computers through a store window in Havana, Friday, May 2, 2008. Computers went on sale Friday to the general public in communist Cuba, with several dozen people lining up outside a major store to buy or just gawk at them as the latest small change under the new administration of President Raul Castro took effect. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

(AP) -- Cubans are getting wired. The island's communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.


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