Re: Thats all folks!

Wrong, Pat:  The S/38 was first introduced in 1980, IIRC.  It was
immediately withdrawn because it did not allow enough auxiliary storage
using the piccolo drives.

IBM re-introduced it with 3370 disk drives that allowed enough storage to
make it functional in 1981.

The System/36 was introduced in 1983 or early 1984, IIRC.

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Barber" <mboceanside@worldnet.att.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: Thats all folks!


> The S/38 came much later than the S/36... The S/36 first shipped
> in 07/83 as I recall... The S/38 didn't exist till much later.
>
> The S/36 still remains one of the most popular and widely
> installed systems ever built. The 400 didn't catch up with
> the S/36 in sales numbers for several years.
>
>
> Chuck Lewis wrote:
> >
> > James wrote:
> >
> > <By the way, doesn't that paragraph make people happy to see how much
> > good
> > work was done by IBM way back in 1991?  The 36 was a pain but the
> > underlying architecture was good.>
> >
> > Actually the core of OS/400 at the time was from the S/38... goes back
> > even FURTHER :-)
> >
> >
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