I am certain you are right. I had no training or experience on either=20
the 1620 or the 1130.


On 9/5/2016 8:53 AM, John J. McDonough wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 21:30 -0400, John Ferrell wrote:
>
>> "1620"
>> Kind of an oddball descendant of the 1130 world. Down right wierd in
>> that it used a table lookup scheme rather than an ALU.
>> Sometimes reffered to as the CADET machine, Can't Add Don't Even Try.
>>
> Somehow I don't think the 1620 was a "descendant" of the 1130 given
> that it was introduced six years earlier.
>
> We had 1620's at school, and they were pretty odd.  We learned to
> program them in "NCE Load and Go", kind of a FORTRAN-y language.  Later
> we could use the "big" 1620 programmed in Kingston FORTRAN 2.  We also
> had a FORTRAN IV compiler, but that was too big and new for students.
>
> --McD
>

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