I think you are right Phil. I recall the P70 purely for PWD customers. This was essentially replaced by FLEX (which sold in their hundreds) for PWD and Commercial users worldwide. Sadly 'killed off' by IBM after the Platform Solutions debacle.
Cheers! ALH -----Original Message----- From: Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:39 Subject: Re: LzLabs in ComputerWorld Tony Harminc wrote, re MP3000: >Ah - you are quite right. And the P30 was the PWD machine, which did >not change its model number when (effectively) converted to an H50 by >the Linux add-on. There was never a P50 or P70, to my knowledge. We were doing Linux at Linuxcare (who'd'a thunk), and I think that might be what we had: a de facto P70, even though it wasn't "legal". This wasn't cheating: it was with IBM's blessing (I think they had to give us a microcode fiddle to enable it). I remember having 3480s as well, and noting that the tape drives were bigger than the CPU, which just felt wrong. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
