The virtual data center – a 1401 3D simulation (opens in new tab)

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78 pointsbeprogrammed4y ago4 comments

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beprogrammedOP4y ago· 1 in thread

He demonstrates it's operations on his YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hrnI8u3Uc4

Stratoscope4y ago

This is much more awesome than I feel I deserve. Definitely recommend watching at least that first video.

Tip: when he is flipping the toggle switches on the front panel and hits the Enter switch, don't look at that switch, watch the lights at the top of the panel.

And the 026 card punch! The sound and sight of that brought back the most vivid memory of punching my programs all night in the basement of the Caltech computer center.

I love the THANKS signs everywhere. Every IBM shop would have signs like that:

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/think_cul...

I can't wait until they unpack the RAMAC with its amazing 5 million characters of storage. That's more than sixty-two thousand punch cards!

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/...

weinzierl4y ago

This is awesome. Understandably in museums you are not allowed to touch the old hardware, let alone run programs.

That being said if you want to get close to a remarkable collection of early computers I can recommend the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. They have other models besides IBM, like the original Zuse Z4 and a leather covered Cray you can sit on.

Animats4y ago

Oh, that is just precious.

Set up four tape drives, so you can run the sort. The Computer Museum has the program.

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