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Remember when mobile phones were too big to fit in your pocket, and you had to pull up the antenna to get a signal? What about that daisy wheel printer, or that DEC Rainbow that could boot in multiple OSes including DOS. It's all at the D&H Distributing technology museum in the lobby of the company's headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa. But no need to drop what you are doing right now. Channel Insider will take you on a quick tour through technology then and now.
Remember Those? A Trip Through Technology Then and Now - THEN: IBM 1620 Data Processor
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THEN:
IBM 1620 Data Processor and IBM 1621 Tape Reader
The IBM 1620 was a general-purpose, stored-program data processing
system designed for research and engineering. It featured punch-card,
paper tape and keyboard input and offered large-capacity storage for up
to 60,000 digits, high processing speeds with average access time
of 20 microseconds, and compatibility with other IBM
equipment using FORTRAN.