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!BulBoard/!BBSsys/NetMail/NetWork2/!Import/MimeBody
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Recent acquisitions » Acorn ADFS disks » adfs_ArchimedesWorld_199604.adf » !Archibrd_ArchiBrd |
| Filename: | !BulBoard/!BBSsys/NetMail/NetWork2/!Import/MimeBody |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 02D5 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
mike@msmith.zynet.co.uk (Mike Smith) wrote: >Check my maths.... I have a software package for the Arc >which has grossed �5,000 (not much). > >I have sold 1 copy to every 300 users of the Arc at �5 each assuming >there are 300,000 units in the world. > >There are 10,000,000 Macs had I the same success I would have >made �166,666 (I could live on that) > >There are 84,000,000 PCs had I the same success I would have >made �1,400,000 (I could do something serious with that). > >Why bother to program the Arc? Love? > Cos it took you 100/3 times faster to code it on an Arc than on a mac and at least 840/3 times faster than on a PC, besides think of the social stigma associated with earning mroe than �5,000 in a year!
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