Re: Apple II Clones. How many sold?

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On Dec 29, 9:35 am, jonny <jo...@no-email.org> wrote:
> On 27/12/2009 5:24pm, datajerk wrote:
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> > Google has failed me, or I have failed Google.  In either case I
> > cannot seem to find any statistics on the number of Apple II clones
> > sold in the US or worldwide.  I had a clone, as did most of my
> > friends.  It was economics.
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> > I ask this because according to Wikipedia, "During the Commodore 64's
> > lifetime, sales totalled 17 million units, making it the best-selling
> > single personal computer model of all time." (Yes totaled was spelled
> > wrong in the article--fixed now :-).  And according to Wikipedia Apple
> > II sales sans the IIgs were less than 5 million.  But the number of
> > clones are not taken into consideration.  AFAIK the C64 was not cloned
> > (correct me here).
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> > So, was the C64 the best-selling computer "model" of all time?  Can
> > the ~200 different Apple II clones significantly increase the the
> > overall volume of the A2 family.  I speculate no.  Simply because my
> > clone was still 3x the cost of the C64.  But I'd still like to know.
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> The C64 total worldwide sales were in fact about 30 million, the 17
> million was the number sold in the US and Canada.
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> The Amiga sold about 6 million units worldwide between 1985-1995, and
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My psychic inner mind says for freware world wide there were a total
62 +/- 20 made and sold yhru 22 seperate companys that sold A2 clones
made under varision names from 1971 thry 1993....
Yoe .....to msny periods agao