Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: REVIEW: World of Amiga Keywords: miscellaneous, convention Message-ID: <8835@gollum.twg.com> Date: 15 Apr 91 04:30:22 GMT References: <1991Apr10.061909.28231@menudo.uh.edu> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 22 In article <1991Apr10.061909.28231@menudo.uh.edu> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) writes: >1) There have been 3 million Amigas shipped by CBM worldwide. > > This is an interesting number. We were told that over 75% of them are > A500's so we can be very happy that machine exists! > > We were also told again (is this supposed to make us feel better that > in more than 5 years there are only 3 million out there?) that > it took us less time to do this than it took the Mac. Actually.. this makes *me* feel pretty good. After all it was only last summer that they passed the 2 million mark. (Can someone who knows post a timeline of when certain sales figures were known to be passed? If the rate is accelerating then this is a very good trend..) -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- "MS-DOS? Where we're going we don't need MS-DOS." --Back To The Future