Comment by ErroneousBosh
17 hours ago
Well, no, because it wasn't a minority.
They were cheap and ubiquitous, unless I suppose you were in one of "Iron Curtain" countries.
17 hours ago
Well, no, because it wasn't a minority.
They were cheap and ubiquitous, unless I suppose you were in one of "Iron Curtain" countries.
A quick google query says 15% of US households own a personal computer in 1989.
Okay, well, it was far more than that in the UK and Europe.
I suppose it's a bit like television, it would have been more popular where it was invented.
Around 5 million ZX Spectrums were sold between 1982 and 1992. If all were sold in the UK (they weren’t), that would put the penetration around 25% based on the number of households in 1990.
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