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From: Ed Federmeyer <fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
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Subject: Re: yaroze members?
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:33:40 -0500
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Gil Jaysmith wrote:
> 
> jamin1@psu.edu (Jamin Frederick) wrote:
> >Does anyone know a ballpark figure of the number of yaroze members in
> >the US and Europe and Japan?  The newsgroups haven't been very lively
> >lately.  [etc]
> 
> A bit of hearsay floating around the office right now is that Sony has
> sold only a couple of hundred units in the States. [etc]
> In either case I'm surprised as hell that there's been so little
> takeup; the impression I got from the European groups was that there'd
> be more, since it's usually only a vocal 2% who contribute to
> newsgroups. Perhaps all those garage programmers out there have
> decided to wait for the Nintendo 64 home devkit ;=)

It really could be that the system was released just shortly before
summer.  It really makes a *big* difference around here (Chicago, IL)
I guess we'll find out in the fall if thats true.

EdF