On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 at 12:55, Adam Sampson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > 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.)
I was going to make the same cavil. :-) The PCW was wildly successful, but not in the USA, and USAnians tend to forget about anything that wasn't big in their own country. I think the PCWs were also the only widely-successful CP/M *3* computers. Although to be fair I suspect that many users never left LocoScript. Certainly some of my acquaintance were astonished to learn that they had the option to upgrade to LocoScript 2 (8*** series owners) or 3 / 4 (8*** & 9*** series owners). I think mostly just people who bought additional printers learned that. Poor marketing by Locomotive, sadly. -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
