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From: cg108fep@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
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Subject: Re: What is the All-Time Best-Selling Computer ?
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Date: 4 May 90 23:13:44 GMT
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In article <2426@uniol.UUCP> 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?
)>
)>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.

Yes, I suppose Eniac and Univac weren't computers, as well as the
FORTRAN engines using punch cards.

Shall we talk about Babbage's machine and whether or not it was a
copmuter?

Let's not.

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