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Along with his PhD supervisor, Prof. William Wright, he famously arranged for the purchase of Trinity’s first computer in 1962 (an IBM 1620), before becoming head of the new department in 1969 and the ...
Fessenden translated Shogren’s “laws of art” into computer code on an IBM 1620 computer, resulting in some of the world’s first works of computer art, two decades before this kind of art ...
MEISENG consists of an IBM 1620 data processing system, an IBM 1401 magnetic tape system, a General Dynamics/ Electronics S-C 4020 computer-recorder (plotter), and a 24C Copyflo machine. A good ...
It was a miraculous machine – an IBM 1620 – dirt cheap for its time: only $100,000. Gates didn’t fall in love with it. He preferred the Belgian waffles. His interest in computing began two ...
WMU welcomed its first computer center, which featured an IBM 1620 computer and auxiliary equipment in 1962. This marked the first computer available to students in the university’s history. “The ...
Developed as a by-product of the IBM 1620 Jr. project, the Cadetwriter is a general-purpose ASCII terminal. It can be connected via RS-232 or USB to any mini, micro, mainframe, or replica computer … ...
An example is IIT Kanpur, a pioneer in computer science education in India, which began the first computer courses in 1963 with a single IBM 1620 system. Today, the department boasts a vibrant faculty ...
In addition to normal stored program sequencing, the system provides trace options and the ability to enter any statement for immediate execution. Present implementation of the system is with an ...