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 IBM 1620 Model I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The IBM 1620 Model I was the original implementation of the IBM 1620 scientific computer, introduced in 1959.
One industry magazine (Datamation) mentioned that the 1620 was the first IBM computer for which the basic system could be leased for a monthly rate less than its number.
Expansion to either 40,000 or 60,000 decimal digits required the addition of an IBM 1623 Memory unit.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620_Model_I   (389 words)

  
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IBM produced a total of 1300 IBM 1620 Model 1 and 2 computers in the United States and 660 systems internationally.
The core memory on the IBM 1620 was heated to 104 degrees Fahrenheit to stablize it's operating characteristics.
Within IBM, the original development code name for the IBM 1620 was CADET.
http://www.computerhistory.org/projects/ibm_1620/IBM1620/PAGES/trivia.html   (582 words)

  
 IBM Archives: 1620 Data Processing System
The IBM 1620 was a general-purpose, stored-program data processing system for small businesses, research and engineering departments of large companies, and schools requiring solutions to complex problems in the areas of engineering, research, and management science.
A subset of the 1620 SPS, this system required only one pass of the source program tape to assemble and punch out an object program.
Additional FORTRAN language statements were included, and high degrees of precision in computation could be achieved by specifying the length of number fields in excess of the fixed length normally allowed.
http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1620.html   (1005 words)

  
 The IBM 1620 Data Processing System
Much more about the IBM 1620 at the Computer Museum History Center.
The basic IBM 1620 Model 1 Data Processing System, 1959-1970, photo from the Computer Museum History Center.
The 1620 multiplied and divided by using tables stored in memory.
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/1620.html   (463 words)

  
 IBM Model Numbers
Used as an offline printer for the IBM 1620 computer.
Started out as IBM copier 3, to which a computer interface was added (and a magnetic card reader input device).
This is Beagle-Ears -> Lars -> Professional -> Computer History -> IBM Model Numbers
http://www.beagle-ears.com/lars/engineer/comphist/ibm_nos.htm   (1830 words)

  
 The IBM 1401
The 1401 was the first in IBM's 1400 series of computers, which later included the 1410, 1440, and 1460.
At $2500 per month minimally configured, this was IBM's first affordable general-purpose computer, and it was intended to take the place of all the accounting machines and calculators that still provided a cheaper alternative to IBM's 650 and 70x computers.
The IBM 1401 Data Processing System, a stored-program transistor-logic computer announced October 1959.
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/1401.html   (1846 words)

  
 IBM definition of IBM in computing dictionary - by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
IBM launched its computer business in 1953 with the 701 and introduced the 650 a year later.
IBM definition of IBM in computing dictionary - by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
In 1981, IBM introduced the PC into a chaotic personal computer field and set the standard almost overnight.
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/IBM   (778 words)

  
 Computer History Museum
The IBM 1620 Project is well under way and can use your help.
To restore Computer History Museum's IBM 1620 Model 1 machine to full operation using a PC-based emulator for the missing peripherals.
IBM employees who worked on the IBM 1620 (especially development engineers).
http://www.computerhistory.org/projects/ibm_1620/wanted.shtml   (149 words)

  
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The 1620 was a digital computer that it did its calculations in base 10 with variable-length operands.
Basic Programming Concepts and the IBM 1620 Computer.
To add or multiply, the machine consulted tables in its memory.
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/mak-IBM-1620.doc   (213 words)

  
 Operating Systems Support Group
In 1968, the IBM 1620 was replaced by an IBM 360 Model 50, which was the world's first popular commercial mainframe computer.
The current tigger is an IBM RS/6000 model J40, with six 112 MHz PowerPC 604E CPUs and 512 MB memory; tentative plans for this summer call for upgrading tigger for the fourth time by replacing it with a new machine with three times the computing power, memory, and I/O bandwidth of the current tigger.
Our first "computer" was an IBM model 1620.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/adn20/systems.html   (2166 words)

  
 IBM 1620
I thought that IBM should be able to take advantage of their bigness and use technologies developed for larger machines in the smaller machine arena.
Wayne was the manager of the IBM 1620 development team in Poughkeepsie!!!
We received almost a ton of IBM 1620 program card decks for from a Purdue professor.
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/ibm-1620.html   (810 words)

  
 Archive of IBM 1620 Restoration Mailing List
The Computer Museum History Center has a web site on the IBM 1620 Data Processing System.
IBM 1620: Re: IBM 1620 work party (2/12/00) summary
IBM 1620: IBM 1620 work party (2/12/00) summary
http://hissa.nist.gov/mlists/ibm1620/200002-month.html   (405 words)

  
 UCC Computer Centre: About
UCC's very first computer was an IBM 1620 model which was acquired in the mid-1960s.
The Computer Centre was established in the early 1970s — it was then known as the 'Computer Bureau' — and we acquired a newer IBM 1130 computer in 1971.
The 1130 was initially used for academic computing, mainly by the Engineering, Maths Physics and Physics departments.
http://www.ucc.ie:8080/cocoon/cc/general/about   (404 words)

  
 Applelust.com: Code Red Call...
What was way cool about the Model 1 was that the math tables of the machine (yes, the IBM 1620 did math the old fashioned way, it looked up the answer) were stored in memory, so you could actually modify the tables to do arithmetic in any base less than 10.
I always thought that it was a nice touch that the hardware instruction that did a return on the console typewriter was the same instruction (with a different device specified) that did a seek on the hard disk.
(1) The 1969 Universal Pictures Movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project" used the IBM 1620 control panel as the front end of the Colossus super(duper) computer, which was encased in a mountain, surrounded by intensified gamma radiation, and placed in sole, irrefutable charge of the USA's national nuclear defense system...
http://www.applelust.com/oped/sync_different/archives/sd19/sync.19.html   (1400 words)

  
 IBM User's Guide, Thirteenth Edition
UTCC's first computer, an IBM 1620 Model I with 20 kilobytes of memory, was installed in early 1961.
The mainframe computers at UTCC, i.e., the IBM 3081, the IBM 3090, the VAXcluster, and Sun/(UNIX), operate on the following schedule.
Manuals for mainframe computer and microcomputer hardware and software have been placed in the reserve section of the Hodges Library, and are available for three-day checkout by anyone with UT library privileges.
http://web.utk.edu/~mnewman/ibmguide03.html   (8780 words)

  
 NRCS National Water and Climate Center
The original version ran on an IBM 1620 mainframe computer.
The Hydrology Branch of the SCS (forerunner of NRCS) in cooperation with the Hydrology Laboratory (ARS) developed the original FORTRAN computer program through a contract with C-E-I-R, Inc. in 1964.
Technical Release No. 20: Computer Program for Project Formulation Hydrology (TR-20) is a physically based watershed scale runoff event model.
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/hydro/hydro-tools-models-tr20.html   (222 words)

  
 Subject: IBM 1620 Group: Fw: IBM 1620
Since other features of the 1620 provided convenient subroutine programming, division was included as part of the general program package of mathematical subroutines...
Do you have the IBM 1620 Data Processing System Reference Manual A26-4500-2, 71 pages, dated July 1961 - much of the text is what Anne Deckman and I wrote.
Again quoting from the "Conclusions" of my paper: "No division hardware was provided because the use ratio of such an instruction to others was found to be small.
http://paul.mcnabbs.org/ibm1620/20021109-1.html   (1157 words)

  
 IBM 1620 Simulator Configuration
The IBM 1620 was introduced in 1960 as a small-scale scientific computer.
For many people, the 1620 was the first computer they ever used.
Updated 21-Apr-2003 by Bob Supnik (bob AT supnik DOT org - anti-spam encoded)
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/i1620.html   (45 words)

  
 Fred and the computer
The personal computer as we know it today was introduced in August, 1981 by IBM.
For a history of computers click this link --
http://www.gofws.com/fotoz   (84 words)

  
 Ask Paul about the IBM 1620
The Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, BCD, used by external devices, the Model 026 keypunch for example, only defined one set of upper case letters, 10 digits, some punctuation, and a few special characters.
Memory was organized in 6 bit "positions", 4 bits for a decimal digit, a "check" bit, and a "flag" bit.
Most PC users wouldn't believe the amount of software, or the amount of work we got done with these primitive machines.
http://www.angelfire.com/or/paulrogers/Ibm1620.html   (360 words)

  
 Subject: Re:IBM 1620: Re: FYI...
Dag, The IBM 1620 collection of documents that I sent the Museum last summer should contain 3 copies of this "Reference Summary IBM 1620 Model I DP System" which is referenced by this URL.
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Go to messages for August 2000 or latest
http://hissa.nist.gov/mlists/ibm1620/200008/20000810-1.html   (87 words)

  
 Subject: IBM 1620: IBM 1620 Model 2 & IBM 1710 observations
Subject: IBM 1620: IBM 1620 Model 2 and IBM 1710 observations
It fetches instructions using only 6 I states, and even "caching" the Q7 digit in the Data Register.
The Model 2 is a MUCH more elegant implementation of the 1620 architecture.
http://hissa.ncsl.nist.gov/mlists/ibm1620/200002/20000228-3.html   (263 words)

  
 IBM 1620 - OneLook Dictionary Search
IBM 1620 : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
Phrases that include IBM 1620: ibm 1620 model i, ibm 1620 model ii
We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word IBM 1620:
http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=IBM+1620   (94 words)

  
 IBM 1620 Home Page
See the site Computer Museum History Center - IBM 1620 History Site
Testing changes to IBM 1620 History Site layout
IBM 1620 model I main console - (old photo from 1967 - retouched)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/maclean-design/1620.htm   (33 words)

  
 Modelo I de la IBM 1620
English version: IBM 1620 Model I Next: Modelo II de la IBM 1620 Up
Nivel G del modelo I de la IBM 1620, funcionando.
Esta unidad (común llamada "1620" hasta que el II modelo fue introducido) fue producida tan económicamente como la IBM podría hacerla, para mantener el precio bajo.
http://www.yotor.net/wiki/es/mo/Modelo%20I%20de%20la%20IBM%201620.htm   (491 words)

  
 Lexmark Laser Printer Parts, Accessories and Services, Toronto, Ontario Canada
ADAPTOR (POWER SUPPLY) 2030 LV Model: Lexmark Jetprinters
SENSOR INTERFACE BOARD OPTRA E+ Model: IBM/Lexmark Laser
"GEAR 11TTRAY 4 OPTRA N" Model: IBM/Lexmark Laser
http://www.comlaser.ca/printer/parts/manfg.asp?Manfg=5   (235 words)

  
 What a HOME COMPUTER could look like !! :-) - OSNN Forum
wafting from the great humming IBM 1620 Model II.....
> wafting from the great humming IBM 1620 Model II.....
We used IBM 2741 terminals - Selectric typewriters
http://www.osnn.net/forum/showthread.php?t=50168   (1560 words)

  
 Subject: IBM 1620: Model II
Subject: IBM 1620: Model II From: "Coslet, Tim x1505" Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 15:31:22 -0700 Subject: IBM 1620: Model II
One of the SMS Cards I am entering in the Spreadsheet is a Reed Relay timer card to control this ETM.
Go to messages for October 2000 or latest
http://hissa.ncsl.nist.gov/mlists/ibm1620/200010/20001018-11.html   (88 words)

  
 1620 - Ink Oasis
Home > Search by Model > IBM > 1620
The use of Brand names, Logos and Trademarks are for descriptive purposes only and are the property of their respective owners.
Ink Oasis - Save on Inkjets, Toner, Printer Ribbons, and More!
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 Thinkpad T43 Notebook Model 2687D8U (IBM-2687D8U) - PriceGrabber.com
Report a pricing error on the Thinkpad T43 Notebook Model 2687D8U
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 1620
September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year.
Years: 1615 1616 1617 1618 1619 - 1620 - 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625
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