7 May
2009
7 May
'09
6:45 p.m.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 7 May 2009 at 12:09, Warren Wolfe wrote:
I would agree with that. When it was only the IBM 5150 and 5160 on
the market, they had a presence and commanded a certain amount of
attention in the trade press, but the sales numbers were low. It was
a while (years, ISTR) before the dollar amount of 5150s sold exceeded
the dollar amount of C-64s sold, and it took a bit longer before the
total number of PC clones sold exceeded the total number of C-64s
sold.
As a data point, a real IBM 5170 PC-AT was $5,000-$6,000, loaded
(color graphics, printer, and hard drive). Clones were easily 2/3rds
that and sold in great numbers.
-ethan
...?It took
a while for it to register that the PC market was going to be big with
business, but when it did, the 400 pound bear started moving....
Actually, it wasn't the IBM PC, XT, AT or PS/2 that established the
market, but rather the proliferation of cheap far east clones. ?A
Taiwanese "XT" couldn't be touched as far as bang for the buck.