IBM’s personal computer server announcements, postponed from November when Compaq stuck a spoke in the wheel, are due on March 20: the Wall Street Journal suggested earlier this week that IBM plans PS/2 Micro Channel servers based on the 80236 and 80386SX with a 1.3Gb disk using the SCSI interface (CI No 1,382); other sources say that the announcement will contain replacements for the Model 60 and Model 70, with SCSI disk drives and Micro Channel across the line; and the same disks as in the RS/6000 boxes, although only the 320 is suitable for Model 70s; it is uncertain if the UK and US launches are to be simultaneous, although IBM UK says there is a number of announcements scheduled for next Thursday, some of which could feature servers.
