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- From: gordonf@monashee.sfu.ca (Gordon Farrell)
- Subject: Re: A little Falcon Math
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.012314.19953@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <Bx98EK.1yD@chinet.chi.il.us> <2AFA262E.26042@news.service.uci.edu> <69153@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:23:14 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <69153@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- >
- >The most believable reports are that there are about 50 "Atari dealers"
- >left in the United States...
- >
- >So if the "official allocation" is 2 Falcons per dealer, that means
- >that the Atari production pipeline (whatever THAT means these days)
- >is 100 units TOTAL..
- >
- >So.. how hard is it to build 100 computers..?
- >
- >Must be pretty hard, I guess...
- >
- >BobR
-
- Oh, come on Bob. According to a reader verified survey in AtariUser magazine
- earlier this year, there are over 200 Atari dealers in the US. Add to that
- the number of Canadian dealers (I'd guess about 50, considering there are
- about 6 or 7 in Vancouver alone), and you've got about 500 machines for dealers
- in North America alone. I presume there are at least that many dealers in
- Europe and Australia & New Zealand combined, so you're looking at over 1000
- machines for dealer demo units.
-
- Albeit this still isn't a lot of machines, but it's much more than 100.
-
- (In case you doubt the survey, these are dealers that actually answered the
- phone and had machines for sale on the premises. Also, this does not include
- mail-order houses)
- ________________________________________________________________________________
- Gordon Farrell |e-mail:gfarrell@cs.sfu.ca |"Shee, you guys are so unhip
- | gordonf@sfu.ca | it's a wonder your bums
- Simon Fraser University | | don't fall off."
- Burnaby, B.C., Canada | | -Zaphod Beeblebrox
-