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From: gehlhaar@uniol.UUCP (Arne Gehlhaar)
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Subject: Re: What is the All-Time Best-Selling Computer ?
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Date: 4 May 90 09:54:24 GMT
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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.
>The VCS was intended for video games, and had only 128 bytes of on-board
>RAM (yes, that is bytes, not Kbytes.), Yet plug in cartridges enhanced its
>capabilities. A version of chess was even shipped for it.

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.

Greetings, Arne