IBM System 36 sales film 1984 - part 1

IBM System 36 sales film 1984 - part 1

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[dimbulb23]

Then suits were worn by executives, sales people and other in professional positions. In most cases it meant you held a better, higher paying job. Would you wear a suit now for a big pay bump?

S/36 had a max 256 MB of HDD, max 7MB of RAM and serve ~32 attached devices... So no a clone could handle that. For many years in at era the S/36 was the world's most numerous business computer with 100s of thousands around the world in small shops.

[tphilp74]

Is that a pubic hair at 2:15?

[mgodfrey1981]

I'm confused: Why are the computer people wearing suits?

[roadgeek123]

@idahofur

I think hard drives were rare on a PCs in 1984.

[shades2]

Look at all the people living and working in the data centre.. haha.. and in suits.

[idahofur]

No that was not the point. This was a little before my time. But the pc had say 5 or 10 meg hard drive If they had a hard drive. This 100's of megs, tapes, etc. Plus muti user network. That printer they showed was a high speed printer compaired to dot matrix printers at the time. ETC, ETC.

[Galfonz]

Couldn't they have used a PC clone for most of this?

[jaworskij]

The Doctor sounds a bit like Bill Clinton