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From: pete_ashdown@pedro.UUCP (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: "Units sold" numbers?
Keywords: Amiga sales, //GS sales
Message-ID: <350@pedro.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 21:23:00 GMT
Organization: Bitsko's Bar & Grill, Public Access, Salt Lake City
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I have a couple of questions concerning "units sold" numbers. 
  
A. How many Amigas have been sold worldwide?  I need a hard factual number. 
The only thing I have is "The Banditto" in "Roomers" stating something like 
500,000 have been sold to date.  This seems ridiculously low for the rate 
that 500's have been selling at. 
  
B. How many Apple //GS's have been sold worldwide?  "A+" claims that 250,000 
have been sold.  A couple of Apple owners are telling me that 2,000,000 have 
been sold!  Both of these numbers seem ridiculously HIGH for a computer that 
has roughly 100 commercial packages available for it, 18 months after it was 
originally released.  Computer Shopper stated last fall that 10,000 //GS's 
have been sold.  This seems more like it, but there is no way that my friends 
using Apples will believe that. 
  
If someone can mail me some hard facts, I would sure appreciate it. 
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