Re: Apple II Clones. How many sold?

[larwe <zwsdotcom@gmail.com>]

On Dec 27, 2:46 pm, "Jeff Blakeney"
<jeff.blake...@a2central.com.remove-rkc-this> wrote:

> The Commodore 64 is said to have sold 17 million but that is only one
> model.  It may include the 64C but that wasn't a different model, it was
> just manufactured differently if I remember correctly.  They aren't

There were a few internal differences between the C64 versions (and
let's not forget the SX64 and DX64 and the MAX C64-in-a-games-console
machine), but no *huge* differences if you just stick to the breadbox
+C64C models.

- PAL vs NTSC vs SECAM video
- Various housing flavors
- 6581 vs 8580 SID (and accompanying changes in the other parts - but
the SID difference is a real functional one)
- Lots of discrete logic vs. a big ASIC in the C64C
- Some models didn't supply 9VAC to the user port (Aldi C64)