FOOD FOR THOUGHT...
I live in an area of two small towns of about 20,000 and 30,000 respectively. I belonged to an Amiga users club of about 20 people. I was the ONLY one who owned a Video Toaster. In the state of Ohio there are litterally thousands of small towns. I would guess you are all seriously underestimating the populararity of the Amiga platform here in the U.S.. Newtek is still in business selling Toasters for PC platforms and they ain't cheap. It would probably be easy enough to email them and find out how many Amiga/Toaster platforms they sold. They can probably tell you how many toaster boards they sold too. Figure that with the average in the club I belonged to and you will get a rough idea how many were sold here. The demise of the Amiga in the U.S. had more to do with the insane business practices of the people who ran Commodore than the quality of the platform. After all it was doing things the PC could never do without a $1,000.00 USD worth of aftermarket boards. It may surprise you to know that there are still active Amiga user groups around the U.S.. I am just thankful that the European community is and was an avid supporter of the Amiga platform. One final note. I am an amateur radio guy and I attend the worlds largest Ham Radio/Electronics/Computer show and convention held in Dayton, Ohio every year. The outdoor flea market alone has over 2,000 vendors on the average and for the past ten years there has always been someone selling used Amiga stuff and they are not cheap. Don't count us short here. On ebay the most of the Amiga equipment sold is from the U.S. and I am not counting software because the bulk of that semme to be from the UK. Most of the software seems to be from people dumping games.
