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 ...

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 ...

A Montreal-based creator modeled a miniature replica of IBM's iconic 1401 computer system. Nicolas Temese told Business Insider that the scale model includes everything from the setup at the time ...

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 aren’t often ...

A typical IBM 1401 weighed 5 tons so portability meant a truck! It may seem funny to think of a 55-pound computer with a CRT as portable. But this was a time when computers sat on raised floors in ...

Computers have gotten a lot smaller since 1959, when IBM created the 1401 data processing system, touted as the world's first affordable general purpose computer. But Nicolas Temese, a Montreal ...

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 ...

The IBM 1401 was a computer developed during the transitional period of recording media, and was able to use both the magnetic tape, which was still new at the time, and the punch card ...

Jóhannsson's father worked at IBM as a maintenance engineer for the 1401 Data Processing System, an early and popular business computer that arrived in Iceland in 1964. At that time, keeping a ...

(Photo Courtesy Ed Thelen / IBM 1401 Group) Sparkler’s IBM 402 is not a traditional computer, but an automated electromechanical tabulator that can be programmed (or more accurately, https ...