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

[Max Volume <macsvolume@yahoo.com>]

In article <gcGdnTcGZLDio2CjXTWJhQ@comcast.com>, Bill Garber
<willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> > >The C-64 couldn't touch the Coleco, because at the price they had only a
> > >VERY poor DMP, and their infamous tape system.

> DMP, I believe, is Dot Matrix Printer. ;-)

Right, and the "poor DMP and infamous tape system" sounds like a knock
on Coleco, not Commodore, except that the ADAM printer was a daisywheel
or other form of impact printer, not a dot-matrix.  So how exactly do
those two undesirable features mean the C-64 "couldn't touch" the ADAM?

Besides, I think history has shown us which was the more succesful of
the two machines.  Wait, let me rephrase that.  I think history has
shown us which ONE of the two machines was actually SUCCESSFUL.


Sorry to hijack your post, Bill, but you made a good point about the
"DMP" and I wanted to expand on it.  See, I'm not a *total* dickhead.