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       Raspberry Pi sales hit 10 million,   
       on track to pass Commodore 64's record   
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       I'm still amazed by the popularity says the board's co-creator.   
      
       The $35 Raspberry Pi has sold 10 million units, putting it on   
       track to usurp the Commodore 64 as the third best-selling   
       personal computer in the world.   
      
       Despite the co-creator of the British computer thinking they   
       would sell no more than 1,000, the Raspberry Pi Foundation   
       announced today it has sold 10,000 times that figure.   
      
       On average, more than two million Pi boards have been sold   
       each year since the credit card-sized machine launched in   
       February 2012, putting the system on course to pass the   
       sales record of the 1980's home computer, the Commodore 64   
       (C64), some time next year.   
      
       "We certainly have the C64 in our sights," Raspberry Pi   
       co-creator Eben Upton told TechRepublic.   
      
       "Estimates vary, but the best ones I've seen based on serial   
       number sequence analysis suggest they sold roughly 12 million   
       units."   
      
       The Pi is already the best-selling British computer of all   
       time, last year passing the Amstrad PCW, which sold eight   
       million units during the 1980s and 90s.   
      
       While the Pi is still some way from becoming the world's   
       best-selling personal computer, Upton would like to see the   
       board he helped create secure a place on the top table.   
      
       "Obviously the PC and Mac are way out of reach, but it would   
       be nice to be number three," he said.   
      
   Article continues at   
   http://www.techrepublic.com/article/raspberry-pi-sales-hit-10-million-on-   
   track-to-pass-commodore-64/   
      
      
      
      
   It's a bit silly to class "PC" and "Mac" as "a computer" since both are   
   really made up of various evolving models and cover numerous different   
   manufacturers (if only briefly for the Mac), while the "C64" is really   
   only one model (or only a couple if you count ones like the C64C and   
   portable versions).   
      
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