Commercial Application
Over 50,000 NewBrain units were sold to educational, scientific, industry, small business and banking sectors; as well as to home users. Scientific use was strong because of the unusually high precision of the NewBrain's floating point computations and its very high-resolution graphics. Business use was also proportionally high due to the availability of CP/M based software. The main industrial use was within the pharmaceutical industry.
NewBrain was widely used by the Angola Government for almost everything: For example, the central planning of Angolan Ministry of Commerce in 1981/2/3 and 1984 were made using this machine instead of much more expensive computers.
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