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From: plouff@levers.dec.com (Wes Plouff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: At the Magic Million Mark
Message-ID: <8901192223.AA13636@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 20 Jan 89 01:10:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Last Tuesday, January 17, Wes Young of A.G. Edwards (a stockbroker) 
talked about Commodore's latest results.  The company is getting more 
attention these days from Wall Street, including positive writeups in 
the financial press.

Hard numbers include 1 million C-64 units sold last year.  Only 24% of 
Commodore's revenue (all products) comes from the USA, over half from 
Europe.  In the USA, CBM now has 1600 Amiga dealers.  A2000HD and A2500 
models are "flying" out dealers' doors.

Young's guesses:  cumulative sales of Amigas have reached 1 million 
units, finally.  As discussed to death in this newsgroup, this is an 
industry threshold which should bring in many new companies and 
products, and get much wider recognition for Amiga.  Young breaks down 
the million this way:  150K A1000, 100-150K A2000, 700-750K A500.  
Worldwide, Amiga is selling at a faster rate than Macintosh.

Good news, eh?  In honor of this new milestone, check out the revised 
signature line...
-- 
Wes Plouff, Digital Equipment Corp, Littleton, Mass.
plouff%levers.dec@decwrl.dec.com

Amiga -- over 256,000,000,000 pixels sold.