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>I find it very hard to believe that the original Apple ][ had a production
>number total of 100,000 units...I believe it would be more around 40,000
>to 50,000 units...somewheres around that total.

That's probably about right. I have #37619 in its original box with all 
manuals (looking like it did the day the box was first opened) and I'd guess
it was built in '79, toward the end of production.

>> 100,000 units is not a lot if you consider that Apple gave
>> them away to many, many schools.  That whet their
>> appetites for the eventual purchases of II+ and IIe units
>> which was what really generated profit for Apple.
>
>Take a look at the above numbers which I have supplied, which I believe to
>be very accurate. Owen W. Linzmayer has done a tremendous job with his
>book "Apple Confidential", and he debunks a lot of misconceptions and half
>truths which have come to be blindly accepted by most people as the truth
>regarding the history of Apple. He also reveals a lot of stuff that has
>never been told before, and he did it all through exhaustive research in
>order to be very very accurate.
>
>> I read an old article in A+ magazine about the III.  The
>> article was about Titan Technology's "Apple IIe in a III"
>> card for the Apple III and in the first paragraph, they
>> mentioned that the number of Apple IIIs.  I don't remember
>> for sure the figure, but I think it was around 100,000 units.
>
>That is actually very close. The total number of installed Apple III units
>was approximately 120,000, at the time when Apple discontinued the Apple
>III line in 1984, again, according to Owen W. Linzmayer's book, "Apple
>Confidential". That number would include both the III and the III Plus
>models, of course.

I doubt that III plus production hit five digits. Mine is in the 7800s.

>
>> Considering that, which do we hear about more?  The
>> original Apple II or the Apple III?  100,000 units is not
>> a lot for really the first mass produced PC.
>
>The Apple II came out during a different time era than the Apple III. When
>the Apple II came out, microcomputers were not a commonplace item. 1980
>(Apple III) was a whole different ballgame compared to 1977 (Apple II).
>
>I believe that 100,000 to be a grossly inaccurate number regarding the
>number of original ][ models. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I find it hard to
>believe that Apple would have continued to manufacture and sell the
>original ][ after they introduced the updated ][ Plus.

Well they sold Mac Pluses for how long after the SE and II came out? The
//c and //e for how long after the IIgs came out? It's not such a weird
idea. Like I say, I read that production ended in '80.
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