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From: sterling@cbmvax.commodore.com (Rick Sterling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What is the All-Time Best-Selling Computer ?
Message-ID: <11307@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 May 90 21:20:01 GMT
References: <1455@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <29462@cup.portal.com> <17782@well.sf.ca.us>
Reply-To: sterling@cbmvax (Rick Sterling)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Lines: 32

In article <17782@well.sf.ca.us> oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster) writes:
> In article <29462@cup.portal.com> Justin_Randall_Padawer@cup.portal.com writes:
> >The Commodore 64 is the correct answer by far!  Hard to believe, huh?
> 
> Not only is this hard to believe, it is also wrong. The C64 has only sold 
> about 9 million units. The Atari VCS has sold over 17 million units.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  pretty old datum here.

> The VCS was intended for video games, and had only 128 bytes of on-board
          ^^^                               ^^^
  past tense right?

> RAM (yes, that is bytes, not Kbytes.), Yet plug in cartridges enhanced its
> capabilities. A version of chess was even shipped for it.
> 
> God bless America, we have the smartest closets in the world.
> -- 
> -- David Phillip Oster - Note new address. Old one has gone Bye Bye.
> -- oster@well.sf.ca.us = {backbone}!well!oster

Strange as it may seem, the old war horse C64 is still in production having gone
through a couple facelifts over the last 8 years.  As far as total number sold
I have no idea what the numbers are now... The 9 million units mentioned above
probably refers to just US Sales.
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