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  IBM 4361 HISTORY
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  The  IBM 4361 is a small, low-cost System/370 mainframe com-
  puter introduced in 1983 and targeted at the educational and
  small business markets.    Codenamed  "Anton",  after  Saint
  Anton,  the  4361  was developed in Boblingen, West Germany,
  and was manufactured at  three  locations:    IBM  Plant  #1
  (Endicott,  NY,  USA), Plant #54 (Havant, UK), and Plant #98
  (Yazu, Japan).
 
  The  unit  owned  by  the  Interim  Computer  Museum  is  an
  Endicott-produced  4361 model type 5, serial number 01-0157,
  which IBM claims is capable of 1.4 million instructions  per
  second  (MIPS).  Model 5 units have 16 KB of CPU cache, sup-
  port up to 6 I/O channels, and came with a retail  price  of
  $200,000  (equivalent to $648,691 in 2025).  All 4361 models
  are air-cooled, use a single 10 MHz processor, and can  sup-
  port a maximum of 12 megabytes of memory.
 
  The  4361  was  not a high-end machine.  For comparison, the
  top-of-the-line IBM 3081-G introduced the  same  year  is  a
  water-cooled  system  with a single 38.5 MHz processor, sup-
  ports up to 32 megabytes of  memory  and  32  I/O  channels,
  claims a performance of 12.6 MIPS, and cost $3.3 million new
  ($9,700,974 in 2025).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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