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Re: NeXT Sales figures

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From: Dave Griffiths
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:49
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In article <1992Aug20.161439.7358@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.163945.286@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave  
>Griffiths) writes:
>> Have NeXT released any sales figures recently? When was the last quarter
>> for which unit shipments were published? How many machines were sold in  
>91?
>> 
>> No guesstimates please - I'm looking for official figures. 
>
>NeXT has never published unit sales figures. 1991 revenue was $127  
>million.
>

Yes they have, which is why I asked the question. I came across an
announcement back in April 1991 of their unit sales for Q1 91 - 8000.
That made me wonder if that was a one-off (presumably because it was
strikingly good), or whether they'd done so subsequently as well
(I seem to remember figures for 91 but that was probably netguesses
based on revenue estimates).

Dave Griffiths

PS: Old news:

>From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM
>Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 07:55:53 PST
>Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.62)
>To: nug@cpac.washington.edu
>Subject: NeXT SHIPS 8,000 CPUs IN FIRST QUARTER -ascii version - 

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From: prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Sales figures
Message-ID: <1992Aug21.084952.3379@prim>
Date: 21 Aug 92 08:49:52 GMT
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