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

["Sam Gillett" <samgillett@msn.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote ...

>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!).

The hard drive was an option on most of the XT clones.  Not sure if the IBM
was available without it or not.  Back in the mid 1980's a lot of home users
bought a bare bones machine and added a hard drive later.  By buying an RLL
drive controller card instead of an MFM card, you could end up with 35
megabytes of drive space for the price of a 20 megabyte drive.    :-)

Best regards,

Sam Gillett aka Mars Probe @ Starship Intrepid 1-972-221-4088
     Last 8-bit BBS in the Dallas area.  Commodore lives!