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Re: Apple ///?

Subject: Re: Apple ///?
From: jcompton@typhoon.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
Date: 1997/04/18
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References: <3339DBE2.F9@ebicom.net> <29MAR199700464722@vax2.concordia.ca> <5hido0$rt$1@europa.frii.com> <860975539.2246@dejanews.com> <17APR199703043265@vax2.concordia.ca>

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: unsuccessful, a major flop. The Commodore VIC20 was not a technical
: wonder (5K RAM and 22 columns text?) and never had a huge following
: behind it, which is why it was dropped. Neither company killed off
: these machines, per say, they killed themselves being poor products.

I think the Vic sold something like a million units over its relatively
brief life (maybe 2 years?) which isn't too shabby for any day and age,
and certainly not bad for 1981.

-- 
Jason Compton                                  jcompton@xnet.com
Editor-in-Chief, Amiga Report Magazine         Anchor, Amiga Legacy
WWW - http://www.cucug.org/ar/                 www.xnet.com/~jcompton/
The sands of time were eroded by...            the river of constant change.

References:
- Apple ///?
  - From: Marvin Jason Gallop <mgallop@ebicom.net>
- Re: Apple ///?
  - From: spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
- Re: Apple ///?
  - From: shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)
- Re: Apple ///?
  - From: ps10600@cedarnet.org
- Re: Apple ///?
  - From: spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)

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