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authorLars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>2016-10-16 16:40:02 +0200
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Popularity
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-Available sources disagree on the actual number of installations. [liedtke93]_
+Available sources disagree on the actual number of installations. [liedtke93]_
mentions 2000 systems were installed by 1985, but [gmdbericht86a]_ counts
only 1000 systems by the end of 1986. Amongst the users were a growing number
of schools: 20 in 1982 ([alwr82]_, part 4, p. 13) and 500 secondary schools by
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ amongst those located in Hannover in 1994 revealed four of 56 (7%) law offices
still ran EUMEL machines eight years after intruduction of ErgoJUR and advodat
[jurpc94]_.
+GMD itself sold 22, 11 and 102 copies in 1982, ’83 and ’84 respectively. These
+numbers do not include copies sold by one of the 3, 4 and 7 licensees.
+[ttpreis85]_
+
By mid 1985 support for the Japanese *Kanji* writing system was added to EUMEL
[gmdspiegel85d]_. A newly founded corporation *NISSIN Products Corp. Tokyo*
sold the product on the Japanese market [gmdbericht85]_.