jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (07/14/89)
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In article <115177@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
<Right, at the Developers Conference in San Francisco Commodore announced
<that they had passed the million machine mark by March of 1989 (1,041,000).
<They also noted that 70% of their new sales were in Europe. Given the
<initial sales of 1000's here in the US and the current split the best
<guess anyone can come up with is between 300 and 500 thousand in the US.
<(Early Amiga sales were much more US slanted.) They claimed the hoopla
<they had been planning was delayed while the fired the president of the
<US sales office. (Actually they said "things were in transition" but
<that is what they meant.) Anyway, if anyone from Atari want to jump up
<with an installed base number please feel free...
<--Chuck McManis
I'm still waiting for the official announcement from Commodore so that
we can all start celibrating. Better late than never.
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