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Offline huronking

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I'm quite sure there were more than 200k sold in North America.

For example the A500 was the hottest selling in the
Christmas season of 1991 bar none. As I recall one
particular chain, (now defunct) Montgomery Ward had a big dispute with C= about paying for the units they moved that year that played a part in C='s eventual demise. I dont remember the specifics. I think there was a similar dispute with AAFES who also sold tons of them.

If I remember correctly there were like 7,000,000 A500s sold.

However- since I was stationed in Wildflecken, Germany when I bought my A500 and took it home
with me your estimate of the German market is
inflated by at least 1. :)
 

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I do know that C= sold spare motherboards for the
C=64... But they were refurbs even though they were
supposed to be new. (You could spot the replaced ICs and newer solder work). You would think that was because of the returns from K-Mart and such
were significant for that market. I'll bet the same held true for the A500, but probably not the 1k,2k,3k,4k. C= wasnt around long enough after the
1200 and 600 for that to have likely been the case.