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From: terry@cdx39.UUCP (Terry Platt x7360)
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Subject: Re: Young whipper-snappers and 1130's
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Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 23:40:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  9 23:40:47 1987
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Organization: Codex Corp, a division of Motorola; Canton, MA, USA
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Summary: more 1620 anecdotes

We had the same model IBM 1620 when I was going to high school as Mike O'Dell
had.  By the way, for those who don't know, CADET stands for "Can't Add,
Doesn't Even Try": the add and multiply tables were stored in unprotected,
normal speed (20 usec) core; the most common bug would result in wiping out
all memory, and your ability to add.  But having a writable add table meant
you could add and multiply in bases other than 10.

The console terminal (modified typewriter) on our machine was not overlapped:
if you held onto the carriage when it tried to carriage-return, the whole
machine would stop.