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Showing posts with label ibm1401. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ibm1401. Show all posts

Inside card sorters: 1920s data processing with punched cards and relays

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Punched card sorters were a key part of data processing from 1890 until the 1970s, used for accounting, inventory, payroll and many other ...
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Qui-binary arithmetic: how a 1960s IBM mainframe does math

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The IBM 1401 computer uses an unusual technique called qui-binary arithmetic to perform arithmetic. In the early 1960s, the IBM 1401 wa...
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Fixing the core memory in a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe

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I recently had the chance to help fix one of the vintage IBM 1401 computer systems at the Computer History Museum when its core memory sta...
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Examining the core memory module inside a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe

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The IBM 1401 mainframe computer was announced in 1959 and by the mid-1960s had become the best-selling computer , extremely popular with me...
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