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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: that magic number...
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Date: 13 Jul 89 01:20:02 GMT
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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
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