The virtual data center – a 1401 3D simulation

weinzierl 2021-08-18 07:57:02 +0000 UTC [ - ]

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.

beprogrammed 2021-08-17 07:56:40 +0000 UTC [ - ]

He demonstrates it's operations on his YouTube channel.

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

Stratoscope 2021-08-18 07:35:24 +0000 UTC [ - ]

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/...

Animats 2021-08-18 01:20:06 +0000 UTC [ - ]

Oh, that is just precious.

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