28 Aug
2015
28 Aug
'15
1:50 a.m.
Many 1620's were leased and IBM recovered them at the end of the lease.
There is a note somewhere I have seen about the one at Lancaster University
have a disk drive replaced and then returned to IBM within weeks...
.. on the other had I know the one at Newcastle Polytechnic hung around for
at least a year. I wonder what happened to the one at Constantine College
(later Teeside Polytechnic, and now Teesside University) which ran my first
Fortran Program...
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay
Jaeger
Sent: 28 August 2015 03:41
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: IBM 1620
On 8/27/2015 9:18 PM, Kevin Tikker wrote:
is
Thanks very much for the link. Maybe there is one
out there
There were two IBM 1620's in the College of Engineering in Madison, WI
when I started school, and rumor was that one of them ended up in
somebody's basement. Whether or not that rumor was true, and if so, if it still around, or not, I have no idea.
(Rumor was that there was also a CDC-160A in somebody's basement here in
town, as well).
Both of these rumors date back 30+ years, though.
JRJ