Computer History Archives Project (CHAP) | 1991 IBM Computers: AS/400 Announces 11 new Processors for 1991 (minicomputer history applications) @ComputerHistoryArchivesProject | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
IBM Computers: AS/400. The following is an exceptionally good IBM announcement about release of 11 new AS/400 processors. The AS/400 was IBM's most successful minicomputer family. Introduced in 1988, IBM upgraded and improved the 400 line many times since then. This original IBM film runs about 8 minutes and highlights the availability of many new sizes of AS/400 processors available. The 400 was a replacement for the System/36 and System/38 computers. IBM sold over 100,000 by 1990 and ultimately sold over 500,000 systems by the end of 1997. (Film courtesy of IBM Archives)

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Some acronyms used in this film include:

IBM AS/400 - Application System 400
OSI – Open Systems Interconnection
AFP – Advanced Function Printing
APPN - Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
ISDN – Integrated Services Digital Network
SNA – System Network Architecture
SAA - Systems Application Architecture
CMOS - Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
N-way central processor