On Tue, 09 May 2000 14:06:24 -0600 Edward P Luwish <eluwish at uswest.com> wrote:
>The 1620 was my introduction to computers (1968) - does anyone
>else remember this wonderful machine?

Yes, it was my first IBM experience (1966 or 7). Night classes in the summer at a high school without adequate air-conditioning. We sometimes had to leave the room to let it cool down a bit. FLAG (Fortran Load-and-go) and GOTRAN were nice because they didn't need to punch out the object code as an intermediate step.

Cheers,
Bob