[comp.sys.amiga] Japanese Markets

tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM (Todd South) (04/06/88)

I've noticed that a number of people are commenting about the Japan/US
market differences, but I wonder about just how much of this there
is that one could call a two way street.  I lived in Japan for quite a while
and never saw any Commodore/Apple/IBM products for sale there (and I am
talking about the REAL products, not clones).  Does anyone know if the
Japanese have discovered the Amiga?  If so, does anyone have sales figures
for the number of users in Japan that own Amigas?

Todd South

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miner@dino.ulowell.edu (Rich Miner) (04/07/88)

In article <2774@crash.cts.com> tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM (Todd South) writes:
>Does anyone know if the Japanese have discovered the Amiga?  If so, does 
>anyone have sales figures for the number of users in Japan that own Amigas?

We get a magazine in our library that looks like a Japanese version of Byte, 
though more technical.  There are lots of articles on lisp and other 
languages, architectures and computer systems.  In one issue there was an
Amiga review, it look similar in coverage to what Byte covered in their
Amiga preview article.

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