Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3f00cbfd.3788766@news.netnitco.net>,
vairxpert <vairxpert@hotmail.com> wrote:
 
>> Later the VIC-20, Commodore-64, Sinclair ZX-80, ZX-81 and Spectru,
>> the Jupiter Ace and many more appeared, which had separate displays.
>> But they were not business systems.
> 
> Considering when they were released I never understood why the C64 and
> Atari 800's never made it as real business machines?  I would say
> either one was able to hold it own against the first 4.77 mhz XT's and
> they cost a fraction of the price. 
 
At the very beginning, IBM considered the PC to be a game machine for
home use.....

BTW the XT had a hard disk (10 MBytes -- tiny by today's standards but
enormous back then), which probably partly explains why the XT was so
expensive (the other reason it was so expensive was of course the
brand name "IBM".  Otoh, when Apple released the Lisa, and later the
first Macs, they did the same thing: these were _not_ cheap machines!).
 



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