What are the best-selling desktop computers in history?

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Many wonder who I am about the most powerful and best selling computers since these devices appeared? Since the introduction of desktop computers in the second half of the twentieth century, the names of many devices that have achieved unprecedented fame, and here we will review the best 9 devices in terms of specifications and sales also , According to the category listed on Enteresting Engineering!

Commodore 64

Date of issue: January 1982.
Number of devices sold: about 17 million.
Original price: $ 595 in the United States.
Described as the most popular computer in history released in 1982, for those who own one it was certainly an amazing experience, and it is hard to describe words. The massive packing and CPU are 1 MHz and 64 KB of RAM.

Commodore 64 was strong at the time, and had a programmable voice chip as well as support for graphics. The machine left a footprint in the history of computers and was probably the best computer ever.

Commodore Amiga 500

Number of devices sold: about 6 million.
Original price: $ 166.
The footsteps of Commodore 64 coming into the market are surprisingly popular. However, it was faster, better and of course the latest, this amazing computer has become a quantum leap from an 8-bit CPU (up to 32) with 7MHz speed, and up to 512 KB of RAM and of course a floppy drive.

The Amiga family was generally widely known, but the Amiga 500 was the most popular.

MSX

Date of issue: June 1983.
Number of devices sold: about 5 million.
Original price: Unknown (if you know, share the information in the comments).
The Japanese were geniuses in inventing their devices in the 1980s, and the MSX is not only one of the best-selling computers, but also one of the most unique devices. They worked on MS Basic but did not become a global system, but it was unbelievably great in Japan.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Date of issue: 1982 in the United Kingdom.
Number of devices sold: about 5 million.
Original price: $ 166.
While the Sinclair Timex 1000 computer has achieved tremendous sales, Spectrum has made the design very similar to previous devices, but Spectrum was a more powerful machine than them.

It came with 16K RAM, an integrated keyboard, and a 3.5MHz CPU. This device was popular all over the world, and one of the first computers to become popular as a "PC". It is rumored that this device was owned by many young people who They found their passion for it and began a computer career.

IBM PC 5150

Date of issue: September 1981
Number of devices sold: 50,000 units by April of 1982.
Original price: between $ 1565 - $ 3000
All non-Mac desktops, referred to as PC Shortcuts, and all Intel-based devices that use Windows have been in the market since 1990, but will not exist if they are not an IBM PC.

This device was released in 1981 and came as the first computer with new features such as: 4.77 MHz 16-bit Intel 8088 processor and 16 KB RAM, its price was reasonable for a powerful computer at the time it was made by users.

I've been a candidate to be at the top of this list, but it's hard to find gross total sales figures. In addition, Intel-based desktops have been copied by many other companies over the ages.

Apple II

Date of issue: June 1977.
Number of devices sold: 1 million by June 1983.
Original price: $ 1298 (4K RAM) - $ 2638 (48K RAM).
You can not ignore Apple's previous success. The Apple II was designed based on the success of Apple 1 by keeping the processor 1 MHz and 4 KB of RAM, but also added a keyboard, was a useful addition to them, and came with 8 ports to insert cards capable of To increase memory.

You can configure the device with improved specifications such as: 48 KB of RAM with Apple, and VisiCalc to schedule data that made it incredibly useful for companies at the time.

iMac

Date of issue: 1998.
Number of devices sold: Unknown.
Original price: $ 1299
With a distinctive and colorful design, and certainly changed the look of the world to contemporary computers at the time. Its simple "all-in-one" design captures all the pieces in the screen, making it easy to carry and easy to install.

The success of iMac has opened the way for the rest of Apple's future products from iPod to iPhone. Therefore, we can not delete it from the list despite its limited numbers of sales.

NEC PC-98xx series

Date of issue: October 1982.
Number of sold devices: about 15 million.
Original price: about $ 2700.
The MSX group was very popular in Japan at that time but the NEC PC-98 series gave value to its price. It features a 5 MHz Intel 8086 CPU, two display controllers and 128 KB of RAM. These specifications were very powerful at that time, and the NEC device in Japan was the most practical and easy to use in the 1980s. Can be considered a Japanese footprint in PC desktop PC in response to the rest of the world.

Timex Sinclair 1000

Date of issue: January 1987.
Number of devices sold: about 500 thousand in the first six months.
Original Price: $ 699.99
The latest device on our list is one of the best selling computers at all times. It is incredibly expensive. This device is still being requested even after 30 years of release, with a "reasonable" price starting from $ 99.95 at the time of the Sinclair 1000 versions, known as ZX81 .

Support BASIC system and random access memory 2 KB and 3.25 MHz processor. It was slow by standards, but its cheap price seemed to make it really required.

So there is a list of the best computers in history, but the devices that have been released are not over. We shared your suggestions for the devices you see they had to be on this list.

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This list has four of my childhoods computers. All of them were awesome. Amiga4Ever 💾

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Are you kidding, the original selling price of the ZX 81 was $699.99. I bought mine for the $99.99, I think it only has 1k and with the ram pack extension it has 17k. I still have it although due to the membrane keyboard, I don't use it much. I learned machine language programming on this. I also have a Commodore 64. This I still use, I have an assembler (HESMON) that I still dabble with.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane. Upvoted and following. Have a good day.