Commodore 64Discontinued in 1994 While Still Selling
The Commodore 64 sold about 12.5 million by its own sales records, not the 17 million the company put in print.
The best-selling computer of all time is over-counted by half, and it was big enough without the inflated numbers.
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Best-selling desktop computer
Primary for the record and its three estimates.
guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/72695-most-computer-sales ↗ -
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MOS Technology 6581
The Yannes quote is cited there to Brian Bagnall, On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore (2005).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6581 ↗ - [8]
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