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

Subject: Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?
From: Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:52:12 -0500
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Scott Alfter wrote:

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In article <3EFC0271.753A07D6@usa.net>, Jeff Thomas  <a2forever@usa.net> wrote:

Anders Carlsson wrote:

Heh, a little exaggerating surely. By the way, which computer or
game console has seen the largest drop in list price? IIRC, the
TI-99/4 was released at $1150 in 1979, and the improved TI-99/4A
was down at $99 in 1983ish when it finally was dropped.


That's because of the great computer/video market crash of 1983, when
alot of companies went under!



That TI apparently didn't have a clue about how to sell computers didn't

help much, either.

Part of the problem Scott, was that TI sold VERY expensive minicomputers that used the same CPU as the 99/4a, and that division didn'twant to see people buying the 99/4a for a few hundred bucks and thenusing it to run the software that ran on their $25,000 systems.


Roy

Also, while the computer was fairly cheap (my first

machine was a TI-99/4A purchased in early 1983 for (IIRC) about $150),
add-ons remained expen$ive.  The cost of upgrading it to make it useful for
more than just games and tinkering around in BASIC led to it getting
replaced by an Apple IIe in mid-1985.

(I now have a 99/4A with all of the stuff that I didn't have back in the
day--48K, Extended BASIC, floppy drive, speech synth, etc.  I think I have
no more than $100 in it.  eBay 0wnz j00. :-) )

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