Because of someone's faulty memory or a typing error, the object in question does not belong to the "CADET". The Can't-Add-Doesn't-Even-Try machine is the IBM 1620, a decimal, variable-word-length machine introduced at about the same time as the 1401. (Google it for lots of photos and information). But thanks to internet plagiarism, the error has propagated like a case of herpes, even into several languages.
What the 1602 is/was, is unknown to me (and probably to most IBM veterans). My best guess is that it was a coupler between two pieces of unit-record gear, say a 620 calculating punch and a 407 accounting machine. But that's just a guess. I can find no record of it in the online IBM archives.
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Not what you think it is...
Date: 2008-11-12 11:36 pm (UTC)What the 1602 is/was, is unknown to me (and probably to most IBM veterans). My best guess is that it was a coupler between two pieces of unit-record gear, say a 620 calculating punch and a 407 accounting machine. But that's just a guess. I can find no record of it in the online IBM archives.