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 ...

Old mainframe computers are interesting, especially to those of us who weren’t around to see them in action. We sit with old-timers and listen to their stories of the good ol’ days. They tell us about ...

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 ...

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). Computers have gotten a lot smaller since 1959, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Nicolas Temese doesn't work as a modeler full-time — he's a technical director at a small animation studio in Montreal, Canada, where he's based. But he's spent hours creating a mini version of IBM's ...

Perhaps this is a stupid question, but why is that even a question? As I've always understood it, computers simply do math, and "mining bitcoins" is doing math. So it should never be a question of ...