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Early Shipment For I.B.M. Model

August 22, 1986

The International Business Machines Corporation said it had shipped the first model of its most powerful new generation of mainframe computers a year ahead of the company's original schedule.

The computer is the Model 400 version of I.B.M.'s year-old 3090, or Sierra, series of mainframes. The model 400 contains four main processors that work simultaneously.

The company was criticized last year when it said that the Model 400 would not be available until the middle of 1987, but in recent months it has moved up the delivery date, saying that product testing was completed more quickly than expected.

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