Re: Apple IIx

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Forrest <bctimes@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Supertimer wrote:
> 
> > The Apple IIGS early sales figures were phenomenal.
> > The IIGS itself (not even including the other members of the
> > Apple II family) outsold the ENTIRE Macintosh line of computers
> > in its first year.
> 
> The entire Mac line sold 480,000 units in 1986, so this wasn't too
> hard.

If that figure is correct, then Supertimer's statment seems to be
exaggerated.  As far as I know, the total number of IIgs systems sold
over its entire lifetime was just over a million.  I can't believe that
half of those were sold in the first year, and the other half were
spread out over five or six years.

> And many IIgs systems were sold to schools instead of people,
> unfortunately.

About two thirds of IIgs systems never got improved beyond their
original configuration.  :-(

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