Idaho Power

The IBM 1620 was introduced in 1959 and marketed as an inexpensive "scientific computer". It was a general-purpose, stored-program data processing system for small businesses, research and engineering departments of large companies, and schools requiring solutions to complex problems in the areas of engineering, research, and management science. It was used as an engineering tool at Idaho Power and was programmed in Fortran. Load Forecasting was one of the main applications