In the spring of 1963, UW purchased the IBM 1620 outright. By 1966, the 1620 was dedicated entirely to student computing. It was available for use by students from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. and when equipped with a powerful compiler it could process roughly two thousand student jobs.
Peter Shantz, Jim Mitchell and the IBM 1620. GA 133-601. Wes Graham Fonds. Series 3.1: Works Manuscripts. Wes Graham, [A] Brief History of Digital Computation Private Collection.
Jim Mitchell, shown here, was one of the four Waterloo Undergraduates who, in 1965, wrote the first Watfor compiler for the IBM 1620. Private Collection.
Peter Shantz and the IBM 1620. Special Collections, 79-0009-74.
Ralph Stanton urged the creation of a Computer Science Division within the Department of Mathematics.
Cheryl Dietrich, Wes @ Waterloo: James Wesley Graham and the Growth of Computing at the Waterloo 1957 to 1972. (NP: 2002), 12.
