Or maybe they went back to the old numbering system: z9, z10, z196, z12. Z196 may have been justifiable from a marketing standpoint, but most people didn't know what it meant. Why the new machine is zEC12 instead of z12EC is also puzzling. Presumably there will be a zBC12 down the road.
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