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[John Foust]

At 05:55 AM 10/20/2018, Adam Sampson via cctalk wrote:
>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.)

Thw Wikipedia page fot the Softcard has more numbers and dates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard

- John