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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How many PCs and Macs
Summary: How many are actually used?
Keywords: PC, Macs installed
Message-ID: <384@newave.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 04:36:38 GMT
References: <28343@ut-emx.UUCP> <361@newave.UUCP> <54431@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <54431@microsoft.UUCP> jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE) writes:
> Currently about 30 million Messy DOS compat. machines world-wide.

I heard that number too just recently.  I would suspect that about a fourth
to a third of these are the earlier models that are no longer in use.  I 
would also venture that the early MS-DOS only machines (no PC-DOS or BIOS
compatibility) are also collecting dust.  I know we have a bunch of 128K
4.77MHz machines that we have determined are not even worth the time to
look at, let alone use or upgrade.  I'm sure that this can be said about
the Mac 128's and many 512's, and most of the 9 million C-64's.

-john-

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