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success in germany and north european markets

the article is informative and faithful concerning sales in usa uk japan and france. however nothing about germany (a big market) and northern european countries where imho, c64 was selling well and where the demoscene and hacker community emerged 2A02:8440:5402:C686:0:41:EB11:3F01 (talk) 04:40, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

27 million units sold?

David John Pleasance, managing director of Commodore UK, gives a much greater number than other estimates:

I can tell you categorically that the number was just a tad under 27 million. I can tell you that because, when we were thinking about doing a management buyout, we got access to all the figures.

From this article. -- 2804:D4B:79CE:9100:1CD9:B22B:C494:C830 (talk) 06:44, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It has 255 predefined character blocks, known as PETSCII.

Is there any source about this number (255)? Or it is just a misinterpreation of the biggest byte value is 255 but the lowest is 0, so it is 256 character block??? This is also translated to other wikis :) UTF48 (talk) 10:20, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like a misinterpretation. Here's a link to the PETSCII table, which has 256 entries: https://sta.c64.org/cbm64pet.html Robert The Rebuilder (talk) 13:10, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Commodore 64 sales record claims

See discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computing#Commodore_64_sales_record_claims ~Kvng (talk) 13:04, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]