Microsoft-Paul Allen

Adam Sampson ats at offog.org
Sat Oct 20 05:55:23 CDT 2018


Jim Manley via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> writes:

> Many are unaware that the largest fraction of CP/M licenses ever sold
> were for the Microsoft Softcard for the Apple ][ (about 300,000 sold,
> all told),

Do you mean sold up to that point? Amstrad went on to sell several
million PCWs with CP/M later in the 1980s. (They say 8 million on
http://www.amstrad.com/products/archive/, but that includes the
much less popular PCW16 which wasn't a CP/M machine.)

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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>


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