• DocumentCode
    1404944
  • Title

    The Legendary IBM 1401 Data Processing System

  • Author

    Garner, Robert ; Dill, Frederick Rick

  • Volume
    2
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    28
  • Lastpage
    39
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1943-0582
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSSC.2009.935295
  • Filename
    5406352
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1404944