13 Mar
1998
13 Mar
'98
6:57 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca once
stated:
Oops. Missed it.
How about 1130, 1401, 7090, 4300 series? And the ancestor of
the powerPC, what was it, 801?
You forgot the AS/400 series.
There's one already! 
13 Mar
13 Mar
7:07 a.m.
At 09:57 AM 3/13/98 -0800, you wrote:
PC/RT?
Anyone want to get rid of one?
Thank you,
David Wollmann
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It was thus
said that the Great jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca once stated:
Oops. Missed it.
How about 1130, 1401, 7090, 4300 series? And the ancestor of
the powerPC, what was it, 801?
You forgot the AS/400 series.
There's one already!
8:21 a.m.
At 12:07 PM 3/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
At 09:57 AM 3/13/98 -0800, you wrote:
PC/RT?
Oops, just remembered the PC/360. Yup, an XT with channel card and other
goodies. IIRC, was only good for programmers to work offline.
David Wollmann
dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com
It was
thus said that the Great jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca once stated:
How about 1130, 1401, 7090, 4300 series? And the ancestor of
the powerPC, what was it, 801?
> You forgot the AS/400 series.
There's one already!
Oops. Missed it. 
8:03 a.m.
How about 1130, 1401, 7090, 4300 series? And the
ancestor of
the powerPC, what was it, 801?
I thought we were just looking for System/x or Series/x systems.
Here's what I can think of:
Series/1 minicomputer 1977-1991
Advanced(or sometimes Application) System/400 minicomputer 1988-xxxx
System/88 minicomputer? Around about the same time as the Series/1
System/3 minicomputer This is an old one...
System/23 I guess this would be a minicomputer/terminal combo...
System/32 I'm pretty sure this existed, or maybe all these numbers are
mixing me up
System/34 minicomputer from the mid to late 70's
Then came the System/38,
And THEN the System/36!
Personal System/2(8088-486) Around 1990 or so.
Personal System/1 I don't know anything about these...
System/360 Mainframe from the 60's... Kinda funny. 360 as in all-around
computing, and it matches the year, too...
System/370 Mainframe from the 70's...
System/390 Mainframe from the 90's... Hey, what happened to the 80's?
RS/6000 Big powerful workstations...
ES/9000 The newest mainframes, IIRC
I like minicomputers, but mainframes are a bit much. Too big, need too much
power, too much maintenance, too expensive... Minicomputers are just plain
cool. I think over on midrange-l someone said that there was a System/34
below a fire in an office building, 8" of water on the floor by the time
everything was over. They drained the room(and I assume dried out the
computer) and it started right up! As for micros, they are a pain in the
***... Same goes for any computer with a screwed up OS and no install
tapes(in this case, my Apollo 3500. Although I think I almost have the tape
drive working...).
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4:01 p.m.
Just to add to the Rollins list...
Series/1 minicomputer 1977-1991
The PDP-11 killer that flopped. I think they were dead in the mid 1980s,
although perhaps support lasted until 1991.
Advanced(or sometimes Application) System/400
minicomputer 1988-xxxx
Probably the only minicomputer I know of that was advertised on
television (the MASH crew). I think they were announced before 1988.
System/88 minicomputer? Around about the same time as
the Series/1
An oddball. A _repackaged_ Stratus machine!
System/3 minicomputer This is an old one...
IBMs first mini.
System/23 I guess this would be a
minicomputer/terminal combo...
A good try at a small business micro, but a flop in the long run.
System/32 I'm pretty sure this existed, or maybe
all these numbers are
mixing me up
System/34 minicomputer from the mid to late 70's
Then came the System/38,
And THEN the System/36!
I know little about the S/32s. Anyone? Anyone?
Personal System/2(8088-486) Around 1990 or so.
People love 'em, people hate 'em, but they sure made IBM a bundle of
money.
Personal System/1 I don't know anything about
these...
Another stab at the PeeCee market, but again, a failure.
System/360 Mainframe from the 60's... Kinda funny.
360 as in all-around
computing, and it matches the year, too...
They were also still in production in the 1970s.
System/370 Mainframe from the 70's...
The family with THE BEST control panels ever. That includes KI-10s.
System/390 Mainframe from the 90's... Hey, what
happened to the 80's?
Thier current line, and selling like crazy. People are starting to once
again, enjoy the reliability and stability of old iron, now for web
hosting!
RS/6000 Big powerful workstations...
And they are not even RISC. Damn marketers.
ES/9000 The newest mainframes, IIRC
No, the S/390s are.
The only one not here is the S/4, an odd family made for airborne
environments.
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