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 … ...

Computer at the Sydney Technical College.Charlie Shuetrim (lecturer) with pupil Ken Robson (right).Instructor Charles Shuetrim, explains the workings of the IBM 1401 computer to students at Sydney ...

Nicolas Temese's miniature model of the IBM 1401 computer system. The real version was created in 1959 and rented for $2,500 a month (£2,032, AU$3,641). Nicolas Temese.

That, Jóhannsson said, is why IBM staff, who had come to regard the 1401 as a musical friend over the years, held a "funeral" for the computer when it was decommissioned.

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 ...

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has two working IBM 1401 mainframes, and I used one of them to run the SHA-256 hash code. For more information on the IBM 1401, see my article Fractals ...

The IBM 1401 is undeniably a classic computer. One of IBM’s most “affordable” mainframes, it ruled the small business computing world of the 1960’s. Unfortunately, computers… ...

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 ...

A Dinosaur of the Computer Age (not Jurassic Period) is the way I occasionally describe myself. When I was discharged from the U.S. Army I found no corporation interested in a former nuclear ...