From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@...>
Date: 2007-07-22T08:45:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

Morton Goldberg wrote:
> Oh, yes, I just remembered. The 1620 brought two firsts to my 
> programming experience: a drum plotter and a disk storage unit. I really 
> enjoyed writing programs that did output to the plotter.

The only plotter IBM ever offered commercially, if I recall aright, 
staying in the product line years after the rest of the system had 
dropped out.

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John W. Kennedy
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