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From: phaedrus@milton.acs.washington.edu (The Wanderer)
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: <3283@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 4 May 90 01:00:56 GMT
References: <1455@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <29462@cup.portal.com> <17782@well.sf.ca.us> <11307@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <11307@cbmvax.commodore.com> sterling@cbmvax (Rick Sterling) writes:
>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.

>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.

     Why does it matter whether or not the VCS is out of production?  I 
thought the question asked about "the best-selling computer of all time," not
"the best-selling computer of all time that's still being produces right
now..."
     And in any event, to the best of my knowledge, the VCS/2600 is still in
production; at least, all the Kay-Bees around here seem to have no problem
obtaining them.  The base unit these days is much smaller than it used to be
(doesn't take many chips to do a VCS these days :) ), and I've seen it for as
low as $29... sure, the gameplay isn't as good as a S*ga or N*ntendo, but
then again, you can buy the whole VCS for less than the price of a decent
cartridge for the others...
     Let me check my closet... a 2600, a 7800, some old TI-99/4A stuff,
a bunch of Apple IIe disks... pretty smart closet, all right. :)

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