wall@fortune.UUCP (Jim Wall) (04/20/84)
The critters in question are personal computers. Does anyone have any info on how many total home computers there are? It would be nice if the information separated home and business uses. And even better if there were a company breakdown: xx million Apples, xx million Commodores, etc. If you have the source for this information could you send that also? Thanks. You can either mail the info to me direct or post it to the net: surely what I'm interested in, everybody is :-) Domo Arigato, -Jim
apratt@iuvax.UUCP (04/21/84)
Does an Atari 2600 count as a personal computer? 5200? What about a Coleco? with or without an Adam? The Sinclair ZX80 or -81 might be a personal computer, but personally, I'd rather eat glass than try to use one for long. ---- "Fritz! They've killed Fritz!" -- Allan Pratt ...ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!apratt (please do not respond to iuvax!notes)
kho@hou2a.UUCP (S.KHO) (04/23/84)
1982 US Unit Shipments of Personal Computers
Source of the ff statistics: International Data Corporation.
Note: This is latest figures I've got in Nov. 1983 from Fortune
Magazine. As you will see, it is quite out of date. Any one
with later figures, please share.
Business & Professional use: 926,000 units
IBM 16%, Commodore 14%, Tandy 9%, Osborne 8% (now bankrupt),
Apple 13%, Others 40%.
Home Use: 1,977,000 units
Commodore 36%, Sinclair 23% (I think also now bankrupt),
TI 20% (out of home pc business), Atari 12%, Others 9%.
Scientific Use: 80,000 units
HP 31%, IBM 26%, Apple 29%, Others 14%.
Educational Use: 147,000 Units
Commodore 23%, Atari 22%, TI 15%, Apple 12%, Tandy 11%, IBM 7%
Others 10%.
In 1982 Shipments of $4.1 Billion, the market share is broken down
as ff:
IBM 20%, Apple 16%, Commodore 11%, Tandy 9%, Obsborne 4%,
Convergent 4%, NEC 3%, HP 3%, Xerox 2%, Atari 2%, Others 26%.
In terms of growth in market share in 1982:
IBM 122%, Apple 0%, Commodore 120%, Tandy -66%, Osborne 300%,
Convergent 300%, NEC 50%, HP -50%, Xerox -30%, Atari 0%, Others -17%