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From: neumann@uniol.UUCP (Frank Neumann)
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Subject: Re: What is the All-Time Best-Selling Computer ?
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Date: 4 May 90 11:44:36 GMT
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gehlhaar@uniol.UUCP (Arne Gehlhaar) writes:

>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?

[... about Atari VCS being best selling computer ever...]
>I doubt though, that the VCS can be counted as a "real" computer, its only
>device of input being a joystick !  :)   I think a computer should at least
>have a keyboard, but then again, that's a problem of how you define the
>term computer.

HOWEVER -
there was a kind of keypad available for the VCS (I think, the number keys
plus "#", "." and one or two more... even better, the old Atari brochures
showed a "Basic Programming language Module"...never seen it myself, but
I must have existed somewhere... so, the VCS _IS_ the best selling
computer ever, no !?! :-) :-) :-)

-Frank
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