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to: Shaun Bebbington
from: Andreas Kohlbach
date: 2018-05-13 18:01:40
subject: Re: ATARI and Spectrum are rubbish - The C64 is the king of home-comput

On Sun, 13 May 2018 10:01:40 -0700 (PDT), Shaun Bebbington wrote:
>
>> In the UK, the Commodore C64 was more expensive than other machines,
> so many chose Sinclairs, though it has a good Wurst rating because of
> it's sausage-feeling keyboard (at least on the runner keys models).
>
> rubber*

Chicklet. ;-)

The Sinclair were only successful because of the price. If you look at
the markets outside the UK the C64 had the biggest market share, even
outperforming the IBM PC for some time.

http://ankman.de/market_1984.jpg> is from what the 8BitGuy on Youtube
provided for the 8Bit computer market in 1984 for the US. So figures from
the UK and other markets are ignored.
--
Andreas

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