The 3032 was announced on the 6th October 1977 and withdrawn on the 5th February 1985.
IBM 3032 Dual Display Console with 360/195s behind and Univac 1108 to the right, April 1980
The dual-display console allowed some operator and engineering tasks to be done in parallel. There was a family of three machines, the 3031, 3032 and 3033. The 3033 was the fastest IBM system at the time and the 3032 a slower and cheaper option. The basic machine cycle time was 80 nanoseconds, slower than the 360/195's high speed buffer store. It had a 32K byte high-speed buffer storage similar to the 360/195 and separated instruction fetch and execution so that multiple instructions could be executed at the same time. The 3032 was available with 2, 4 or 6 Mbytes of memory, 4-way interleaved. The Rutherford machine started with 4 Mbytes but this was later expanded to the maximum 6 Mbytes.
