Mainframe weeping ....

´Bout the gear.....

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From the IBM Archives:

The following is the text of an IBM Data Processing Division press fact sheet distributed on October 5, 1959. The all-transistorized IBM 1401 Data Processing System places the features found in electronic data processing systems at the disposal of smaller businesses, previously limited to the use of conventional punched card equipment. These features include: high speed card punching and reading, magnetic tape input and output, high speed printing, stored program, and arithmetic and logical ability. The 1401 may be operated as an independent system, in conjunction with IBM punched card equipment, or as auxiliary equipment to IBM 700 or 7000 series systems. The IBM 1401 was also commonly used as an off-line peripheral controller in many installations of both large Scientific Computers and large Business Computers. In these installations the big computer (e.g., an IBM 7090) did all of its input-output on magnetic tapes and the 1401 was used to format input data from other peripherals (e.g., the punch card reader in the IBM 1402 card reader/punch) on the tapes and transfer output data from the tapes to other peripherals (e.g., the punch card punch in the IBM 1402 card reader/punch or the IBM 1403 lineprinter).
During its lifetime about 20,000 total systems were manufactured (photo), making the IBM 1401 one of IBM's most successful products. From the IBM Archives:

´Bout the tunes...

In October 2006, respected indie label 4AD (Pixies, Dead Can Dance, Scott Walker) put out an album by Icelandic avante-garde musician, Jóhann Jóhannsson. The album is called 'IBM 1401, A User's Manual'.

The concept is based upon work done back in 1964 by his father, Jóhann Gunnarsson, chief maintenance engineer of one of the country’s first computers, and Elias Davidsson, one of the first programmers in the country.

The album was originally written for a string quartet, organ and electronics and to accompany a dance piece by long-standing collaborator friend, Erna Ómarsdóttir. For the album recording, Johann has rewritten it for a sixty-piece string orchestra, adding a new final movement and incorporating electronics and vintage reel-to-reel recordings of a singing IBM 1401 mainframe computer found in his father’s attic.

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This record is a mark.....they found the soul....the machine soul....I work with that and I can feel...few people can .....

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