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Wolfgang StiefOperate Computer. <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/onepicaday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onepicaday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/ibm1401?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ibm1401</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/operatorpanel?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#operatorpanel</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/vintagecomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/chm?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chm</a>

1001 Other Albums[This guest post was written by <a href="https://dice.camp/@satsuma" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@satsuma</a> about number 248 on <a href="https://1001otheralbums.com/the-list/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The List</a>. The album was submitted by buffyleigh.]Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s father worked on the first IBM 1401 mainframe computer in Iceland in 1964. He discovered a way to produce musical tones by running a program that caused the machine to produce stray electro magnetic waves that could be heard on a radio. He recorded this early form of computer music to a reel to reel tape, where it now comes to life as the start of this haunting album.The album blends a string quartet, electronically treated vocals and a dead pan reading of the user manual for the venerable computer and its associated electro mechanical printing unit, that gives instructions for changing the oil and checking the bearings! The overall effect is quite moving and evokes memories of a different era of technology, where computers were mysterious machines and running a program was as much an art as a science.<ul><li><a href="https://johannjohannsson.bandcamp.com/album/ibm-1401-a-users-manual" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bandcamp: Jóhann Jóhannsson – IBM 1401, A User’s Manual</a></li><li><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/227242-J%C3%B3hann-J%C3%B3hannsson-IBM-1401-A-Users-Manual" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Discogs: Jóhann Jóhannsson – IBM 1401, A User’s Manual</a></li></ul><a href="https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/07/17/johann-johannsson-ibm-1401-a-users-manual-2006-iceland/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/07/17/johann-johannsson-ibm-1401-a-users-manual-2006-iceland/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/1001otheralbums/" target="_blank">#1001OtherAlbums</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/2000s/" target="_blank">#2000s</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/ambient/" target="_blank">#ambient</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/experimental/" target="_blank">#experimental</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/ibm-1401/" target="_blank">#IBM1401</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/iceland/" target="_blank">#Iceland</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/johann-johannsson/" target="_blank">#JóhannJóhannsson</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/neoclassical/" target="_blank">#neoclassical</a>

Luca Sironi<a class="hashtag" href="https://sironi.tk/tag/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://sironi.tk/tag/ibm1401" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ibm1401</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://sironi.tk/tag/fortran" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fortran</a>wow !<a href="https://i.redsnake.io/watch?v=uFQ3sajIdaM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://i.redsnake.io/watch?v=uFQ3sajIdaM</a>

Amin Girasol<a href="https://mastodon.social/@gpowerf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gpowerf</a> Well, it really gives you an idea of just how powerful modern machines are. SIMD is wonderful, but the fact that a classic machine like the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/IBM1401" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM1401</a> can be simulated in its entirety, computationally and visually, including spinning tapes, card punches and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/blinkenlights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blinkenlights</a> on a modern laptop, without it breaking a sweat, really brings it home. Same with the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PiDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PiDP11</a>.

Amin Girasol<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rolffson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rolffson</a>'s <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/IBM1401" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM1401</a> channel is brilliant. He's built an entire IBM 1401 computer centre in a game engine. Here he explains how he uses <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AUTOCODER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AUTOCODER</a> to solve a puzzle called <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BINOXXO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BINOXXO</a>:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg8ClCfddIg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg8ClCfddIg</a>

Tom Lyon ✅IBM taking it on the road. Europe, circa 1960. From Frank Folkerts on FB. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IBM1401" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM1401</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a>

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