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Subject: Re: ST sales #s was (Re: WHERE IS THE ABAQ?)
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Date: 19 Feb 90 04:23:02 GMT
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In article <800.25d8fea4@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
> In article <915@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP>, rwilson@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP (Richard Wilson) writes:
>> In article <90Feb8.215641est.58581@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes:
>>  [ATW sales numbers info deleted]
>> 
>>>Has anyone seen Atari's latest figures on the number of STs and Megas installed
>>>worldwide?
>>>
>> ST Format #6 (Jan '90) p.19 - "We're now on the brink of the 90s and there's a
>> a million STs in the world - Sam Tramiel reckons on 1.5 million - half of them
>> in Germany alone."
>> 
>> "There are around 160,000 STs in the UK and about the same in France."
>> 
>> Rich                  (rwilson@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP)
> 
> Does anyone know how these figures compare with the Amigas, Macs and IBMs out
> there?
> 
>         Ryan
> 
>    rlcollins@miavx1.bitnet

According to MacWeek, Apple sold 1.5 million Macintoshes last year alone.  
IBM shipped 1.25 million PS/2s, not to mention all the clones.

According to AmigaMail, the millionth Amiga shipped about a year and a half
ago.

Yes, there are a lot of STs out there (enough to keep us all afloat), but 
they ain't exactly taking over the world.  Oh, well.  The geniuses are often in
the minority until the slower masses catch up.

--Jim Sisul
The University of Kansas
(#1 at least until tommorrow morning.  #$%##@#!!!@!*&!@ Mizzou!!)