A World Record for 2002 - alt.c64

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Marc Walters

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More options Jan 17 2002, 6:22 pm

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From: "Marc Walters" <m...@objectconnections.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:28:52 +1100

Local: Thurs, Jan 17 2002 6:28 pm

Subject: Re: A World Record for 2002

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"Robert Bernardo" <rberna...@value.net> wrote in message

news:f890d44d.0201162312.24743bd7@posting.google.com...
[snip]

> Not again!!! The new Guinness World Records 2002 has a listing
> for the Commodore 64. This time there is the caption, "BEST-SELLING
> COMPUTER". Below is the article, almost an exact copy of the one that
> was in the 2001 edition.

> "About 30 million Commodore 64
> computers were sold between the

So it's the second year in a row that the GBOR has got it wrong. No more
than about 17 million C64s were sold, 22M if you include the C128. There was
no year in which more than 3M C64s were sold during its 1982-1993 run. From
memory, the figures were something like:
C64 Sales:

1982: 150K - 300K
1983: 2M
1984: 2M-3M
1985: 2M -3M
1986: 2M -3M
1987: 1M - 2M
1988: 1M - 1.5M
1989: 1M - 1.5M

The following figures are from Commodore annual reports:

Fiscal 1990: 700K - 800K (decline begins),
fiscal 1991: 800K ( non official 1M)
fiscal 1992: 650K
fiscal 1993: 150K - 200K

1993 Annual Report: 17M total C64, 4.5M C128

As for the mythical Chinese and Indian C64s, I carried out an unsuccessful
search for anything concrete regarding these. There were 30,000 C64s shipped
to China in three separate lots by Commodore Australia, but no evidence of
local production for their domestic market.

Marc
m...@objectconnections.com

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