The IBM 1620 was the computer my high school used for the math elective I took in the spring of 1971. First day of class, I had the dubious honor of toggling in a bootstrap program.
Five and a half years later (June 23, 1976), I logged onto my first virtual machine on an Amdahl 470/V6. I haven't turned back. /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 (Office) /301-905-6427 (Mobile) On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:52:18 -0500, Kelman, Tom <thomas.kel...@commercebank.com> wrote: >The IBM 1620 was also my first hands-on computer. I was a college >student at the time in a co-op program. My co-op job was with DuPont. >One quarter when I returned to work with the design engineers the >company had just gotten rid of the old 1410 and installed a 360/30 for >the business side of the house and a 1620 in an open shop for the >engineers. It was considered a scientific/fortran machine, but it was >called the CADET for "Can't Add and Doesn't Even Try". It didn't have >any dedicated addition registers, but did all it's calculations via >table lookup using incore tables. > >Tom Kelman >Enterprise Capacity Planner >Commerce Bank of Kansas City >(816) 760-7632 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
