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Popularity
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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
1986 [computerwoche86b]_. A few of them are known by name: Helmholtz-Gymnasium
Bonn [computerwoche79b]_ [gmdspiegel84b]_, Rhein-Sieg-Gymnasium located in
Sankt Augustin [gmdbericht82]_ and Max-Planck-Gymnasium Bielefeld. EUMEL was
also by HRZ Bielefeld and at GMD Bonn, as well as TU Berlin [hahn79]_ and TU
Darmstadt.

Additionally 400 lawyers ran advodat_ on EUMEL in 1987 [cr87a]_. A survey
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]_.