At 01:08 PM 10/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
On 14 Oct 1998, Eric Smith wrote:
Does IBM reuse model numbers? I suppose they
must, or four-digit numbers
would have been exhausted long ago.
Well... considering that a couple of machines that I have in my lab at
work are branded (on the front panel) "IBM (Personal Computer) 360 ?!?
Humorous and I have had more than one ford also.
You are speaking of an IBM PC Type not model number which by the way was
followed with a model number for its full name.
It used the 360 in its name due to the similarity in architecture to the
system but certainly did not have the same model number.
The IBM System 360 was a system type which also had a model numbers.
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