[Coco] Re: The typical CoCo user is aged...?!?

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/3/05 2:13:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
curtisboyle at sasktel.net writes:

>    There were a lot more sold than that, weren't there?  Just going by  
>serial numbers on the various models (1,2,3),  there would have been  
>several million sold, all told.  Rainbowfest in it's heyday had over 10,000  
>people attending by  itself, and I would presume most (if not all) would  
>have had  their own Coco's...



Well, I remember that a lot more RainbowFest attendees had Cocos going home  
from the he Fest, if they didn't already have one or more when they arrived  
:-)
 
Tandy kept secret the number of Cocos sold, so as not to give strategic  info 
to Atari, Commodore, etc.  ISTR Steve Bjork was privy to the sales  figures, 
but had been sworn to secrecy.  However, the last time he appeared  at a 
Chicago Fest, I also STR he considered the agreement "old news" and  actually 
hinted strongly at the true number of Cocos sold.
 
However, I can't remember much about the number -- maybe he didn't reveal  so 
much, or maybe it was close enough to the speculated estimates that it didn't 
 make an impression, or maybe I'm too old (only 61 on Torsten's fine graph,  
though).
--Mike K.