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From: 6600raft@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Michael Wise)
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Subject: Re: What is the All-Time Best-Selling Computer ?
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Date: 4 May 90 22:24:42 GMT
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In article <2426@uniol.UUCP> gehlhaar@uniol.UUCP (Arne Gehlhaar) writes:

>>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.

>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.

I remember an add-on cartridge for BASIC programming with a corresponding
keypad, but I would imagine that not many of these were sold.  I also
remember too that it even played a chess game, but that it would cheat
by making illegal moves while the board was "hidden."

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