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System/34 (model 5340)  The IBM System/34 was an IBM midrange
computer introduced in 1977.[1] It was withdrawn from marketing
in February, 1984.[1] It was a multi-user, multi-tasking
successor to the single-user System/32. Most notably, it
included two very different processors, one based on System/32
and the second based on older System/3. Like the System/32 and
the System/3, the System/34 was primarily programmed in the RPG
II language. One of the machine's interesting features was an
off-line storage mechanism that utilized "magazines" - boxes of
8-inch floppies that the machine could load and eject in a
nonsequential fashion. Borrowing mainframe features such as
programmable job queues and priority levels, the System/34 ran
on 64K of memory.  Physical appearance and requirements[edit]
The System/34 5340 System Unit resembled a huge washer-dryer in
appearance, and was noisy, due to its intern