Posted By
Chicken
on 2016-02-17
13:51:35
 |  Re: Commodore 16 price at 1986
I didn't say the site is annoying. Just reading stuff like that over and over again for so many years is annoying. And you can still find a catchy headline AND stay closer to the facts 
Another bad example: Even the photo pages in the German version of "On the edge" that feature the 264 family are titled "Totgeburten" (stillborn children) – despite Bil Herd saying in the book that – after the prices dropped – the plus/4 became what the (originally C116) idea was all about: a low cost entry-level computer (which had mild success).
I'm not argueing that there haven't been major marketing issues and the plus/4's introduction was a disaster. However, later on it sold quite well (in certain markets) and that's obviously ignored too often.
Litwr:
About software from Mexico … Read these pages. Somewhere, there's mentioned that some of Tri Micro's titles were sourced in Mexico. It also says somewhere, that around 600,000 plus/4 units were sold (in contrast to an answer, JamesC got some years ago – that was around 300,000).
https://web.archive.org/web/20050111032422/http://www.cbm264.com/tm/tms1.jpg
Just go on with tms2.jpg etc (last page is tms9.jpg).
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