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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga?
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Date: 1 Jun 91 16:08:26 GMT
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In article <1991Jun1.022249.22182@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   There is currently an installed base of roughly 5 million MACs and 
>2 million Amigas world-wide.  However, these figures are very misleading
>because most of the Amigas are in Europe and most of the MACs are in
>the U.S.
>
>   If you wish to compare the systems more directly, there is currently
>an installed base of about 4 million MACs and 0.4 million Amigas in the
>U.S.  These figures are more directly relevent, since the majority of
>readers of Usenet are in the U.S.  This is also where I got my figure
>of "10 MACs for every Amiga" in a previous message.
>
	Marc, where do you get your numbers from? 7 month old
posts? Here's rather up-to-date information:

As of last April's World of Amiga in NYC, 3 million Amigas have
been shipped according to (if I remember right) Jim Dionne.

According to the Alex, Brown & Sons report (they are stock
analysts specializing in computer companies), at the point in
time when there were 2.5 million Amigas world wide, there were
600,000 in the U.S. Same rate of growth (which of course isn't
guaranteed, but should be approximate) puts the US at 720,000.

	I've stated my sources. What are yours?

	-- Ethan

Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.			How I hate the night.   -- Marvin