I had a TS-1000 for a few months before getting a C64; it's amazing that they could get something workable for so cheap, but it was painful to use. Between the membrane keyboard, the poor video output, trying to get cassette levels balanced for saving/loading programs, no sound, etc. its limitations were glaring.

This guy has probably the most comprehensive stats on early computers sales: http://jeremyreimer.com/m-i… - which more or less agrees with you.

I knew a guy who had an Apple IIGS, but other than that it was all 286/386s with a smattering of Macs by the time the 90s rolled around. I recall trying to convince my dad to buy an Amiga for his office when he started shopping for his first computer. In retrospect I don't know where he would have even bought one,…

There were a lot of 8-bit home computers sold in the US in the early/mid 80s. Parents saw computers as something they needed to get their kids involved in, lest they get left behind. Anecdotally, nearly every kid I knew in middle school had a computer of some sort. Mostly Commodores, but there was the random Atari,…

The growth of the home computers market certainly played a hand in the crash; a lot of young'uns never realized there was a crash, because they had simply moved to computers for their gaming fix.

Yep; as the saying goes, history is written by the victors, so anyone who isn't Apple, Microsoft or Nintendo has had their contributions to the early computing/gaming scene effectively erased over time.