Geek Fact for October 22nd

By Judy Novotny / 10/22/2012 / Geek Facts

In 1959, IBM released the IBM 1620 data processing system.

The IBM 1620 was a small, transistorized inexpensive scientific computer that could perform more than 100,000 calculations a minute. In the eleven years that it was on the market, approximately two thousand units were sold.

Learn more at http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1620.html.

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Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.