Many 1620's were leased and IBM recovered them at the end of the lease. There is a note somewhere I have seen about the one at Lancaster University have a disk drive replaced and then returned to IBM within weeks... .. on the other had I know the one at Newcastle Polytechnic hung around for at least a year. I wonder what happened to the one at Constantine College (later Teeside Polytechnic, and now Teesside University) which ran my first Fortran Program...
Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay Jaeger > Sent: 28 August 2015 03:41 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: IBM 1620 > > On 8/27/2015 9:18 PM, Kevin Tikker wrote: > > > Thanks very much for the link. Maybe there is one out there > > > > There were two IBM 1620's in the College of Engineering in Madison, WI > when I started school, and rumor was that one of them ended up in > somebody's basement. Whether or not that rumor was true, and if so, if it is > still around, or not, I have no idea. > > (Rumor was that there was also a CDC-160A in somebody's basement here in > town, as well). > > Both of these rumors date back 30+ years, though. > > JRJ