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====Transferred to San Jose for production==== Following announcement of the IBM 1620 on October 21, 1959, due to an internal reorganization of IBM, it was decided to transfer the computer from the Data Processing Division at Poughkeepsie (large scale mainframe computers only) to the General Products Division at San Jose (small computers and support products only) for manufacturing. Following transfer to San Jose, someone there jokingly suggested that the code name '''[[#CADET|CADET]]''' actually stood for "'''C'''an't '''A'''dd, '''D'''oesn't '''E'''ven '''T'''ry", referring to the use of addition tables in memory rather than dedicated addition circuitry (and SDTRL actually stood for "'''S'''old '''D'''own '''T'''he '''R'''iver '''L'''ogic" became a common joke among the CEs). This stuck and became very well known among the user community.<ref>"In 1962, IBM began delivery of a remarkable little machine originally called the Cadet but marketed as the IBM 1620." {{cite book |title=Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology |url=https://archive.org/details/milestonesincomp0000reil |url-access=registration |isbn=978-1573565219|author=Edwin D. Reilly |date=2003}}</ref><ref name=McNabbs>even five years later, it was still uncommon for a high school to have an IBM 1620: {{cite web |url=http://paul.mcnabbs.org/ibm1620 |title=IBM 1620}}</ref><ref name="IBM 1620 CADET">"The IBM 1620 (a.k.a. CADET) ... stood for 'Can't Add and Doesn't Even Try.'"</ref>
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