Home computers market share from 1975 to 2005

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The analysis should be segmented between US ,Europe and Japan .

In Japan the PC didnt have any relevance in the 80s and 90s ...computer as the MSX familiy and later the FMTowns ,Marty and Sharp X68000 were the big deal there .

In Europe the 8 bits computers as the Commodore 64 ,Amstrad CPC (Schneider in Germany ) and Sinclair Spectrum were the absolute protagonists of the market since 1982 and until 1989-1990.The MSX had also some presence in some countries as Spain and Holland.The Atari St and Commodore AMiga were introduced in 1984 and were the high end machines although by 1987 they had gained a lot of ground .Specially in the UK the ST and Amiga grew very powerful .

The PC those years had some proffesional presence .I remember going to the school and in the informatic asignature they had PCs to learn us to use them .They were very basic machines with Hercules or CGA graphics cards (Hercules being monochrome and CGA 8 colours ) and without sound ,hard drive or whatever .But nobody had those in your home ,we had a Amstrad CPC ,Spectrum or C64 .Those more lucky had an ST or Amiga .The Amiga and St graphics and sound capabilities were far ahead the PC of the time so it was the right choice for people looking into music or graphic design .Also the operative system was way better ....the Atari ST OS called Atari TOS was the first "windows " system I have seen and the Amiga Workbench was quite good as well .