[ont.micro.mac] The number of Macs sold

info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (05/13/84)

Date:     12 May 84 2:21:20-EDT (Sat)
From: uw-beaver!Peterr%toronto.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
To: info-mac@sumex-aim.arpa
Subject:  The number of Macs sold

An item in the Toronto Globe and Mail for Friday May 11 (pg. B14)
confirms the 70,000 Macs-in-100-days figure (calling it 20,000 more
than expected) and compares it to the two-and-a-half years it took
to sell 50,000 Apple II's and the seven-and-a-half months to sell
the first 50,000 IBM PC's.
  Other items of interest:
- Apple is "talking to" 250 software developers, 25 in Canada, and this
  will grow to 350 and 35, respectively, by the end of the year.
- A "flurry" of software announcments is expected in June.
- The Mac has "also stimulated an unprecedented demand for Lisa".
- Xerox Canada will carry the Mac and Lisa in its retail stores.

p. rowley, U. Toronto