gordan@maccs.UUCP (10/17/87)
A few weeks ago, someone posted an estimate of how many Macs were being
sold, as a percentage of the total of all computers sold to business.
I don't recall the exact figure, although it was surprisingly high.
To help settle a computer war on a local BBS (albeit a highly literate and
polite one as these affairs go), I would like to be able to get as exact a
figure on this as possible.
Once again, of all computers sold to business in some recent time-frame, what
percentage were Macintoshes? North American figures or world figures would
be equally interesting.
-> Please send e-mail <- and I will summarize to the net.
The value of your response will naturally be greater if you can be as detailed
as possible (what geographic area, what time-frame, does your figure cover all
computers sold or just those sold to business, is there a reference you can
quote from some magazine), although sheer rumor and hearsay will do in a pinch.
I confess I don't own a Mac, but my friend and computer-war interlocutor works
as a systems analyst for a bank and IBM has him eating out of its hand. I
think he is in some fearful need of enlightenment, which could best be
delivered in the distilled form of a percentage figure (preferably massively
backed up and documented so he'll believe it).
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Experience, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable
old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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