Re: How many of each II model produced?

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"Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com> wrote:

>The 5 million figure for Apple II sales is for the 8 bit versions. The Apple
>IIGS sold roughly 1 million additional machines

Based on what I read in II at Work and Compute! the 5 million
figure is for the IIe.  II at Work did an article of the IIe in the
late '80s just when it hit the 5 million mark.  Meanwhile, the
Apple IIc sold 100,000 units in its first week, a record for
Apple at the time.  The figure I've read for the IIGS is 1.5
million total.  A couple of hundred thousand of those were
sold in the first year when the IIGS outsold the entire Mac line
(this was back when the Mac was not popular).  That was
the year when Apple still aired TV commercials with the IIGS
in it.  After that year, silence on the airwaves.

II at Work did say that, as impressive as the sales of the II
was, the sheer sales volume of the C64 surpassed it.

For some reason, many folks at Apple now consider the
Apple II as "the Apple IIe."  Understandable since it was
the longest lived, most popular model.  Ironically, it also
makes it the least collectable.