{"id":2492,"date":"2019-07-12T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2019-07-12T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:11:20","slug":"retro-scan-ibm-4341-super-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2492\/retro-scan-ibm-4341-super-mini","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> IBM 4341 Super-Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IBM_4341_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IBM_4341_small.jpg\" alt=\"IBM 4341 Super-Mini Mainframe computer University Big man on Campus advertisement scan - 1984\" class=\"retroscan\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>A controller bigger than your head<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As far as I recall, this is the first time I&#8217;ve ever featured an advertisement for an IBM mainframe computer system on <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>.  The system in question is the IBM 4341, a System\/370-compatible model first launched in 1979 and discontinued in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>In this 1984 ad, we catch the system &#8212; apparently used commonly at universities &#8212; near the end of its lifespan.  Other than this ad, I know nothing else about it.  But <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_4300\">Wikipedia does<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Huge IBM mainframes at universities predate my time in college &#8212; I&#8217;m actually glad I never had to use them.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Discover Magazine, January 1984, p.22-23 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> Have you ever used an IBM mainframe computer? Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controller bigger than your head As far as I recall, this is the first time I&#8217;ve ever featured an advertisement for an IBM mainframe computer system on VC&#038;G. The system in question is the IBM 4341, a System\/370-compatible model first launched in 1979 and discontinued in 1986. In this 1984 ad, we catch the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}