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Comment by jonjacky

Most people programmed the IBM 1620 like in the rzzzwilson comment here: FORTRAN on punch cards, running out of reach in a closed machine room. But the 1620 did have a console terminal so it could be used interactively.

Somebody at IBM built an interactive APL interpreter that ran on the 1620, but it seems this was never released:

Experimental personalized array translator system https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/364520.364573

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