YOU are either an hermit living in the urban jungle or totally sightless not to notice the mushrooming of various second-hand or surplus computer stores in many parts of the country today. 

Mostly owned or operated by Koreans, Indians and some Chinese, the presence of these ”surplus stores”  shows the big glut in computer production worldwide, such that actual marketing has reached the dime-a-dozen point. Why, in these retail outlets, a Pentium 3 fetches for just P11-thou or P12-thou — really a clear bargain!

This is a development that should, barring some legal issues on  licensing and distribution, prove a boon to the country’s  aspirations for  higher computer literacy among its young people.

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