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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 22:30:10 -0400 (EDT), <KnudsenMJ at aol.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

     I know that the serial numbers alone indicate several million, and I  
know Glenn Sogge (one of the Image Producers, and the programmer for Super  
Bustout), told me that several hundred thousand copies of that one game  
alone were sold...

-- 
L. Curtis Boyle