Title :
The Legendary IBM 1401 Data Processing System
Author :
Garner, Robert ; Dill, Frederick Rick
Abstract :
In this overview of the development of the IBM 1401 and its underlying technologies, we begin with its vacuum tube forebears. We cover IBM´s development of the 1401´s basic enabling technologies and trace its origins in business accounting machines. We highlight its key features and characteristics, its market succession, and even its appearance in popular culture. We also describe the volunteer project at the computer history museum in Mountain View, California, that successfully restored two tape-oriented 1401 systems to full operation.
Keywords :
administrative data processing; IBM 1401 data processing system; business accounting machines; computer history museum; market succession; vacuum tube forebears; Business; Calculators; Computer aided manufacturing; Data processing; Electron tubes; History; Image storage; Logic circuits; Magnetosphere; Vacuum technology;
Journal_Title :
Solid-State Circuits Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSSC.2009.935295
