• 1983

Hardware Description

The IBM System/36 (often abbreviated as S/36) was a minicomputer marketed by IBM from 1983 to 2000. It was a multi-user, multi-tasking successor to the System/34. Like the System/34 and the older System/32, the System/36 was primarily programmed in the RPG II language. One of the machine's more interesting optional features was an off-line storage mechanism (on the 5360 model) that utilized "magazines" - boxes of 8-inch floppies that the machine could load and eject in a nonsequential fashion. The System/36 also had many mainframe features such as programmable job queues and scheduling priority levels.

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  • Model Number:

    System/36
  • Manufacturer:

  • Hardware Type:

    Computer - Mid Range
  • Manufacture Year:

    1983
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