
کمی در پشت صحنه نگاهی به آنچه لازم است برای نگه داشتن دو غول IBM 1401 "Compusaurs" در موزه تاریخ کامپیوتر است. امروز درایوهای نوار تصمیم گرفتند که کار نکنند.
IBM 1401 که در سال 1959 معرفی شد ، یکی از اولین کامپیوترهای ترانزیستوری و مطمئناً موفق ترین رایانه در اوایل دهه 1960 است: تا سال 1965 ، نیمی از رایانه های جهان 1401 بودند. فقط دو نفر هنوز هم فعالیت می کنند – و در اینجا هستند.
در مقایسه با ترمیم های فروتنانه من ، این سخت افزار اصلی است و تنها توسط یک نفر نمی توان آن را انجام داد – یک تیم کامل از افراد بسیار متعهد برای ادامه کار نیاز دارد ، بسیاری از آنها مهندسین IBM بازنشسته ای هستند که مدتها پیش در این ماشین ها کار می کردند. بنابراین یک یا دو بار در هفته ، ما دور هم جمع می شویم ، جانور را آتش می زنیم و برای یک روز دوباره مهندسی 1960 است.
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I am surprised that the computer is ever turned off as when I worked on offshore seismic surveys in the early 1980's turning the data acquisition computers on and off was regarded as an invitation to trouble. I aslso recall flipping toggle switches on the PDP11 navigation computer to re-boot it in a big hurry to avoid having to abort a long survey line and go around again.
That´s amazing! Clearly before I was born – but it´s nice to see those machines running! Thanks for this clip.
So what was this computer able to do ? Add 1 plus 1 and thats about it
There was a card deck that plays “Anchors Away” on the printer! Do you gave such a deck?
never thought i'd say beautiful machines…Intelligence revealed. Computers today Power but no life.
My Galaxy S10 phone has considerably more power than that whole room, we are living in 50s SciFi land right now and yet we take it all for granted. I have 2 laptops, ipad pro, iphone 7 and a couple of tablets I can't remember the last time I used
I started working for Univac in January 1970 at NASA in Huntsville, Alabama at Marshall Space Flight Center. We were called field engineers and then customer engineers after what IBM called their maintenance techs. I left Huntsville in 1976 for White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico and continued working on Univac 1108's thru the water cooled 1100/90 until all of them left around 1993. The IBM machines in Huntsville and WSMR were used for accounting and the Univac machines which were 36 bit were the scientific machines. It is hard to believe that in just a few months our first trip to the moon will be 50 years ago. Wish I could go back and do it again.
But will it play my music library? Gagagaga
4,000 bytes to hold a working program. No operating system, just load your program in on the punch cards, the first 3 being the bootstrap program from where we get 'to boot a computer'. Even so, 4k is a lot of source code to run through the autocoder compiler. After training to program the 1401, I went on to learn 360 assembler, and then PL/1.
I worked with these computers at a bank in Toronto back in the 70's. I started out as a lowly 'Burster/Decollator'. As the Decollator, I worked on this big machine (also called a decollator) taking out the carbon paper from the multi-layer print-outs and as a Burster, I used a burster to separate the pages along the perforations after they were decollated. It was a loud (all day bursting paper apart!) and dirty (miles of carbon paper!) job done in a little room off the printer room. I wonder if there are any old bursters or decollators at the computer history museum.
awesome video !!
I grew up playing with Dad's tools, tearing apart radios and scattering memore beads and we had work benches made from the guts of these IBM Monsters. We got whole panels of these marvelouse switches and lights and soldered them up and sold them for alarms, those blue panels were made of the most amazingly heavy and sturdy material! And the frames were heavy alloy aluminum.
My phone is probably 150,000 times more powerful then that entire room.
I really like how their design has aged. It looks definetely retro, but sleek and clean.
I started at the age of 13 in 1969. Fortran 4 on a 1401 with 16k auxillary RAM. Is this config reroducible? I'm still a programmer BTW. I now do C++ and C# and Python on the side. A slight change.
So cool, a teacher of mine had a similar memory unit as decoration on his desk
Jurassic Park Computer Room….
Can't you fix the bad card?
my iphone has more power than all those old IBM components.
As a student computer operator at the University of Texas Computation Center in the mid-1960’s, my job was to operate an IBM 1401 computer system.
The “mainframe” on campus back then was a Control Data Corporation model 1604, an early Seymour Cray machine. The 1401 was used to feed input tapes (typically containing source code, such as Fortran) to the 1604 since the only I/O for the 1604 was magnetic tape, i.e. it had no line printer or punched card reader.
1604 input tapes were created on the 1401 by having the 1401 read user’s punched card decks from its 1402 card reader/punch and then to write the card decks to the 1401’s tape drive(s).
Output tapes from the CDC 1604 (typically Fortran source program output) were read on the 1401 and then either printed on the 1401’s 1403 line printer or punched into blank cards on the 1401’s card reader/punch (the 1402).
Usually my final task of the shift was to match printed and/or punched card output with its corresponding input card deck, which was then all handed back to the person who submitted it.
Students and faculty alike used this process to submit their source card decks for input to the 1604. Most users didn’t realize there was this multi-step process in place for running their programs.
That was the relatively simple then, and compared with the much more complex now, this iPhone 6 I’m using to create this prose is far more capable and faster than many 1401s!
All things considered, it was a fun job and helped put me through college!
But can it run Crysis?
I hope you can find enough people to keep these beautiful machines running for the next generations. This is knowledge that should never get lost
После Великой Отечественной мы слегка расслабились и почивали на лаврах, за это время компьютеры как-то незаметненько ушли вперед.
I think they had ICs, but they were still pretty new and not very widely in use at this point in time. Everything here is all discrete TTL (transistor to transistor logic). Far and away smaller than the early valve computers, like ENAC and COLOSSUS (and more powerful too), but still not something any old nerd would be running in his basement.
How many watts does the whole system consume under load?
I love how these old ibm people come in and volunteer on this beautiful machine
Can it run crysis
awesome
4kb memory, my alarm clock probably couldn't even run on that.
Crazy. 4k of RAM is about the size of a small 4k TV.
komputer legend.
I have a hard on for main frames!! They are just hardware porn! Wire and ferrite memory cores are just incredible to behold!
II hope there are plenty of detailed videos of these things because something tells me they won't be able to keep them alive forever. Future generations will have to settle for videos.
Check out Ben Stein at 4:20
Wo needs TV or YouTube when you can watch these beautyful tape machines dancing?!
You forgot to replace the CMOS battery, guys. Call yourself geeks?
"let's untoast it"