Hello Mcoomans,
Thank you for your question.
According to results from a new market research report by Computer
Industry Almanac, PCs in use worldwide surpassed 660 million units at
year end 2002.
“Worldwide PCs-in-use surpassed 660M units in 2002 while cumulative PC
sales reached nearly 1,080M units. The worldwide increase of
PCs-in-use will grow by 61% in the next five years to 1.07B. The
worldwide PC penetration is much lower than in the USA with 106
PCs-in-use per 1,000 people at year-end 2002 and 162 PCs per 1,000
people in 2007. Worldwide cumulative PC sales will reach 2B units in
2008—only six years after 1B was reached.”
Computer Industry Almanac: February 28, 2003
http://www.c-i-a.com/pr0203.htm
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The following charts and articles address PC growth since 1980.
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Growth
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EtForecasts: Computers-In-Use Forecast By Country
(Updated January, 2003)
“In the first 25 years of the computer industry the unit sales were
counted in thousands for mainframes and then in hundreds of thousands
for minicomputers. When PCs arrived the count went to millions, to
tens of millions in the mid 1980s and to hundreds of millions starting
in the late 1990s and may top 1B by 2007.”
“By the mid-1980s the PC became the driving force for the whole
computer industry, and it retained this crown for over 10 years. By
the late-1990s the PC became the means to get to the Internet and the
dynamics of the PC industry changed. In the last five years the
Internet has upstaged the PC industry and the needs of Internet
applications have become major factors in the growth of
computers-in-use. Today the Internet and the applications based on it
have become the main driving force for the PC and the whole computer
industry.”
Computers-in-use and PCs-in-use estimated for year-end 2001
Computers-in-Use Worldwide 690.1
PCs in use Worldwide 662.9
Aproximately 95% of the computers-in-use are PCs.
Source: eTForecasts
http://www.etforecasts.com/products/ES_cinusev2.htm
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This chart illustrates growth of PCs in use since 1985.
Worldwide PCs-in-use (#M)
1985 31.4
1990 98
1995 226
2000 523
2002 663
2007 1,069
Computer Industry Almanac: February 28, 2003
http://www.c-i-a.com/pr0203.htm
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“In 1980 there were very few Personal Computers. When Ken Olsen,
founder of Digital Equipment Corp, said in 1977, “There is no reason
anyone would want a computer in their home,” he could justify his
assertion. What would you use a PC for? To word process letters? To
catalogue your stamp collection? Ten years after IBM entered the PC
market in 1981 there were, perhaps, 100 million PCs in use and 20
years later there is hardly a desk in the Western world that does not
have a PC upon it.”
http://www.elpub.org/base02vt.htm
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Market research report by Computer Industry Almanac
PCs-In-Use (Millions) Worldwide 1995-2007
1995 229
2000 530
2001 603
2007 1,150
Computer Industry Almanac: March 11, 2002
http://www.c-i-a.com/pr0302.htm
Cyber Atlas
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/hardware/article/0,,5921_988841,00.html
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According to the Computer Industry Almanac over 95% of the
computers-in-use are PCs.
http://www.c-i-a.com/pr1198.htm
Computer Industry Almanac – Computers in Use: Worldwide
Year-End Computers in Use: Worldwide (#M)
1975 0.3
1980 5.2
1985 38
1989 97
1991 137
1992 159
1993 187
1994 219
1995 257
1997 338
2000 557
Computer Industry Almanac – Press Release -December 16, 1996
http://www.c-i-a.com/pr1296.htm
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