In the UK, the Model 2 – the bigger, slower model in IBM’s new 3390 disk drive line, ships in January, but the faster, lower capacity Model 1 does not ship until the second quarter of next year: for Europe they will come from the IBM Deutschland factory in Mainz; the information we gave yesterday that the Model 1s would ship in the first quarter 1990 in Europe came from the French press release, but IBM France missed out a word, saying that the Model 1 would arrive in quarter 1990, so presumably it’s second quarter across Europe; in the US, the company doesn’t expect to catch up with demand for the 3390s until the middle of 1990.
