IBM's second successful commercial computer (the first was the 650). Introduced in 1959 and offered until 1971, the 1401 was an outstanding success. More than 12,000 systems were installed, and it was ...

Dancer and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir performs during IBM 1401: A User's Manual. Photo: Laurent Ziegler When IBM chief maintenance engineer Jóhann Gunnarsson started tinkering with the IBM 1401 ...

Could an IBM mainframe from the 1960s mine Bitcoin? The idea seemed crazy, so I decided to find out. I implemented the Bitcoin hash algorithm in assembly code for the IBM 1401 and tested it on a ...

This is the IBM 1401 reproduced in 3D. It is said to be one of the world's first mass-produced computers, with 12,000 units sold to companies around the world. The IBM 1401 was a computer developed ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Bill Worthington, a former IBM 1401 programmer and volunteer at the Computer History Museum, showed a fully functional 1401 system and explained its ...

The IBM 1401 is a classic computer which IBM marketed throughout the 1960s, late enough for it to have used transistors rather than vacuum tubes, which is probably a good thing for this story. For ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. 1. The IBM 1401 central processing ...

This year's Tony Sale Award, presented by the Computer Conservation Society (CCS), has been shared by the restoration of two IBM 1401 business computers from the 1950s at the Computer History Museum ...

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Siglent has been making pretty big inroads into the mid-range test equipment market, with the manufacturers instruments popping up on benches all over the place. Saulius Lukse, of Kurokesu fame, found ...