Editing IBM 1620 (section)

==Use in film and television==
* A radio program was developed by DJ Rege Cordic for KDKA Pittsburgh, based on a baseball game simulator developed by John Burgeson of IBM and his brother, Paul, then an ensign in the U.S. Navy. This program was used in numerous demonstration events in the years 1960 to 1963 as an example of the power of computers to perform simulation exercises. 
* The [[fictional computer]] Colossus of ''[[Colossus: The Forbin Project]]'' used about a dozen scrapped 1620 front panels purchased on the surplus market, in various orientations.<ref>{{Citation
 |title      = The IBM 1620 Restoration Project
 |first      = Dag
 |last       = Spicer
 |author-link = Dag Spicer
 |url        = http://leitl.org/docs/public_html/TheIBM1620RestorationProject.pdf
 |journal    = [[IEEE Annals of the History of Computing]]
 |volume     = 27
 |number     = 3
 |pages      = 33–43
 |date       = July–September 2005
 |doi        = 10.1109/MAHC.2005.46
 |s2cid = 710051
 |access-date = 2010-09-02
}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* A similar arrangement was used in a late TV episode<ref>"THRUSH is developing an 'ultimate computer'..." {{cite web
|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Ultimate Computer Affair (TV Episode)
|website=[[IMDb]] |date=October 1965|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0641153}}</ref> and a movie<ref>The IBM 1316 was the removable disk pack to the IBM 1311 disk drive of the IBM 1620, which explains the following: "“The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” movie's full of technological anachronisms ... Back in 1963, when the movie took place, there were disk packs available like the 10-pound IBM 1316." {{cite web
|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/man-from-uncle-movies-full-technological-anachronisms-steve-leibson
|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E." movie's full of technological anachronisms}}</ref> of ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' to portray a '''''THRUSH''''' supercomputer.