IBM Japan claims sales of over 1,000 of its new RS/6000 workstations in the first month since its announcement in February – pretty clever since the things are not available yet so it must mean orders: most of the machines will be going to users of the RT, but it also has orders from financial institutions such as securities and insurance companies; at the announcement, IBM set itself a sales target of 10,000 units for this year, but the this was revised downwards due to import problems and the putting back of the initial shipments in the Japanese market to the third quarter.
