Hi all, On 30 July 1969 IBM announced the IBM System/3 in the United States. It is today fourty year ago that IBM offered the first medium-sized computer for the small business companies. The System/3 was not compatible with the System/360, as it featured a complete new architecture. It also featured a complete new punch card format, which was a small revolution within IBM. See for the development story behind the System/3: http://www.ibmsystem3.nl/hist.html IBM promoted this new system with a 14 minute promotion movie. This movie can be seen on youtube. Be patient, it takes until 3:22 until you find out what it's about: "Are you getting the most out of your workforce and tools?" And until 8:18 before you see the new S/3. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRS3eXQ9gGY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Jrn9yNZAM During its live span approx 50,000 System/3 where build. Today only a few have escaped the scrapyard. The number of still running S/3 can be counted on one hand. See: http://www.ibmsystem3.nl/remaining.html After the succesful S/3 IBM announced the S/32, S/34, S/36, S/38 and AS/400. The S/38 was architecturally completely new compared to the S/3/32/34/36 All System/3 models had been withdrawn from marketing by June 1985. --//--