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

["Bo Zimmerman" <bo@zimmers.net>]

> Actually, the crash was the following year, 1984.
>
> TI pulled the 99/4a because they were losing huge wads of cash on the
> machine, selling it far below it's value, hoping to make it all back on
> the PE BOX and the various things to stuff into it. Then, the straw that
> broke the camel's back: The Coleco ADAM was announced in the spring of
> 1983. $600 for a 64K (80K with video RAM - compare the 99/4a which ONLY
> had the 16K of video RAM!), a fast reliable random access tape system,
> and a letter quality daisy wheel printer with included word processing
> software. TI couldn't compete. Coleco hoped that no one could. But
> Coleco released it before the engineers were finished making the thing
> work reliably. Death to two systems.
>
> Roy

The mere annoucement of the Coleco ADAM caused the death of TI (and others no
doubt) in 1984.

Hmm.. well, we Commodore users surely thank God daily for Coleco's mercy on us
during that time.

- Bo
(Peddle is God, and Tramiel is his propheteer)