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What year and what state? I was programming on an IBM 1620 at the local junior college in Van Nuys, California in 1965 while I was still a student at the high s
by jibal 7y ago
What year and what state? I was programming on an IBM 1620 at the local junior college in Van Nuys, California in 1965 while I was still a student at the high school across the street, and there were at least two other IBM 1620's at schools in the San Fernando Valley, and of course numerous computers at banks and other institutions throughout the state.
- kick 7y agoCouldn't it have been basically every state outside of Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, Connecticut, California, and maybe Illinois in 1965? EDIT: and Texas.
- mattrp 7y ago1968 in North Carolina. I think it was a 360 but I can’t recall exactly. I remember as a kid visiting the office and the computer was housed in a fairly large room where several people worked - mostly women. In fact my mom would joke that the reason he liked work so much was because he worked with virtually all women. It’s possible there were more than two but maybe he was saying only two they could buy time on? I have no idea how many 360s were around back then but that’s how I recall how he told the story.
- jibal 7y ago"maybe he was saying only two they could buy time on?" Probably so. Thanks for filling in the details.