In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.

Unlike other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60 + chips.

Most Aster CT-80's ( about 10 thousand of them ) were sold to schools for computer education, in a project first known as the " honderd scholen project " ( one hundred schools project ), but which later involved many more than just one hundred schools.

There are, however, stronger ones that are simply pre-mixed spirits ( e. g. Bacardi Rum Island Iced Tea ), often containing about 12. 5 % alcohol by volume, that can be sold only where hard liquor is available.

The Afghan government has reported to the UPU several times about illegal stamps being issued and sold in 2003 and 2007.

Disk of chocolate ( about 4cm in diameter ), as sold in Central America, for making hot cocoa.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

It weighed about 455 grams or one pound, had a vacuum fluorescent display, rechargeable NiCad batteries, and initially sold for $ 395.

The PDP-1 sold in basic form for $ 120, 000, or about $ 900, 000 in 2011 US dollars.

Like the PDP-1, about 54 PDP-4's were eventually sold, most to a customer base similar to the original PDP-1.

The PDP-10 was as much a success as the PDP-6 was a failure ; during its lifetime about 700 mainframe PDP-10s were sold before production ended in 1984.

Dynamite is usually sold in the form of sticks about long and about in diameter, with a weight of about 0. 5 lb troy ( 0. 186 kg ).

Two of the hotels sold in 1970 for about $ 7 million, and their estimated worth in 1986 was $ 50 million.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

On January 1576 Oxford wrote to Lord Burghley from Siena about complaints that had reached him about his creditors ' demands, which included the Queen and his sister, and directing that more of his land be sold to pay them.

He left personal assets of about £ 7, 000 and lands that realised £ 6, 000 when sold.

, there are more than 158 products sold under the Jell-O brand name and about 300 million boxes of Jell-O gelatin sold in the United States each year.

The fish at this point was about to be sold in the market.

In 2003, about $ 44 billion ( USD ) worth of microprocessors were manufactured and sold.

Although about half of that money was spent on CPUs used in desktop or laptop personal computers, those count for only about 2 % of all CPUs sold.

The expansion of the iron works was apparently costly to Allen ; he was forced to sell off portions of the Cornwall property to raise funds, and eventually sold half of his interest in the works to his brother Heman.

Selznick sold half of Kelly's contract to MGM and loaned him out to MGM for his first motion picture: For Me and My Gal ( 1942 ) with Judy Garland.

Brahms had amassed a small fortune in the second half of his career, around 1860, when his works sold widely.

Its follow-up, " The Breaks ", sold over half a million copies.

According to John Iliffe, " The worst crises were in the 1680s, when famine extended from the Senegambian coast to the Upper Nile and ' many sold themselves for slaves, only to get a sustenance ', and especially in 1738 – 56, when West Africa's greatest recorded subsistence crisis, due to drought and locusts, reportedly killed half the population of Timbuktu.

In 1991, Tim Mara, struggling with cancer at the time, sold his half of the team to Bob Tisch for a reported $ 80 million.

The " Doctor's Car " sold for only 3, 950 marks, about half as much as the luxury models of its day.

This " strategy " of the gradual dismantling Paramount's assets and library has continued under current Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman who not only split the company in half and gave the television library and distribution rights to the feature films to CBS, but also sold off the Company's music library, Famous Music.

Entrepreneurial " hokey-pokey men " sliced the loaf in half, stuffed it with antipasto salad, and sold the world's first " hoagie ".

In March 2010, BAE Systems sold half of its 20 % stake in the company to Investor AB, which then became the major shareholder.

The # 3, which sold for about half the price of a # 1, used a simplified, non-locking lever for the falling block action, and came with an uncheckered stock.

Maintaining the same members for over forty years, ZZ Top has released 15 studio albums and are among the most popular rock groups, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, half of this figure concerning the United States alone.

At times, over half of the brewery's output is directed overseas to the U. S. In 2010, more than 640, 000 hectolitres of the beer were sold in the United States, more than double the 2001 total.

And, in 1966 alone over half a million snurfers were sold.

In the second half of the 19th century, some flute manufacturers such as Barnett Samuel and Joseph Wallis also sold whistles.

The album sold almost half a million copies that year and eventually almost reached platinum status.

In 2006, its average weekly circulation was reported to be 1. 5 million, about half of which were sold in the United States.

The record sold approximately half a million copies.

" The Jamie Redfern Show " sold out a number of shows at Melbourne's Festival Hall, with the Team filling the first half of the night and Redfern belting out his hits in the second half.

In the United States, the country's 196 farmers ' cooperatives sold 86 % of milk in the U. S. in 2002, with five cooperatives accounting for half that.

This percentage has fallen over time due to the increase in manufacture of lithium-ion batteries: in 2000, almost half of all portable rechargeable batteries sold in Japan were NiMH.

The line became extinct on the death of Count Eberhard II ( 1394 ), who in 1385 had sold half his territory to the count palatine of the Rhine, and held the other half as his feudal domaine.