Re: Apple II quantities?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

"Forrest" <bctimes@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote :
>
>>//e  -----    approx. 6 million
>
>?  That'd require selling 600,000 a year for 10 years.  The numbers I've
>seen in print (e.g. in Sculley's book, if memory serves) say 750,000 IIes in
>1983, 800,000 IIes and IIcs (combined) in 1984.  And those were really the
>peak years.

You have to remember, the IIe really took off after the
introduction of the Apple IIe Professional package
(an Apple IIe with DuoDisk, 128k, and enhancement)
in 1984 after which sales skyrocketted.  The Apple IIc
was introduced in 1984 and was the fastest selling
Apple computer (Macs and Lisas included) at the
time, making a record in first week orders.

In an issue of II at Work years later there was a
feature article about the Apple IIe hitting the 5 million
mark.

Basically, over the 10 year life of the IIe, this model
sold a little more than all the Commodore Amiga
models combined at the time Commodore went
under and if you think about it, one bumps into an
Amiga about as often as one bumps into a IIe.  ;-)

All this is dwarfed by the number of Commodore 64
units made.  Something like 20 million, I've heard.

I think the Mac has sold what, 30 million now over
all the models?  But that's only because it has
been sold longer than the Commodore 64 was.

I think we need a Commodore 64 type computer
for the new millenium.  What type of computer
can be made for $99 with today's technology?