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====System/36 Model 5364==== The model 5364 was called the "System/36 PC"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hdeC0k_JHwC&pg=PA131|title=With the IBM System/36 PC, you can run your business from here. (Advertisement)|magazine=[[PC Magazine]]|volume=5|issue=13|date=July 1986|page=131|publisher=Ziff Davis, Inc.}}</ref> or "Desktop 36" (and also, informally, the "Baby/36" by some β but this name was later attached to a software program produced by California Software Products, Inc.). The 5364 was a June 1985<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Computers-and-office-automation-industries/IBM-Unveils-Multitasking-Processor-for-Use-with-PC-Interface-and-Upgrades-System-38-Processor.html |title=IBM Unveils Multitasking Processor for Use with PC Interface, and Upgrades System-38 Processor}}</ref> attempt by IBM to implement a System/36 on PC-sized hardware. Inside, there were IBM chips, but the cabinet size was reminiscent of an [[IBM PC/AT]] of the period. The machine had a 1.2 MB 5.25-inch diskette drive,<ref name=autogenerated2 /> which was incompatible with PCs and with other S/36s. The control panel/system console (connected via an expansion card) was an [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM PC]] with at least 256 KB RAM.
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