Old computers Links

IBM 1401 Stuff and Links

• My list of IBM 1401 documents
• My collection of 1401 software
• 1401.org has photos of 1401's and 1460's.
• More 1401 photos.
• Ed Thelen has scanned the ALD's from the Australian Computer Museum
• Gordon Bell has a page about 1401 at the Bay Area Microsoft Research Center.
• Columbia University Computing History
• The Computer History Museum has a 1401. Unfortunately, it's not in working order.
• John Deane has logic diagrams and service manuals. I have a list of his documents. If you send me your mail address, I'll forward it to him.
• Jay Jaeger's 1410 page
• Al Kossow's IBM 1400 Series Documents
• Dave Nichols' 1401 page
• Paul Pierce's Computer Collection
• Paul Pierce's old IBM page -- has links to other stuff, too
• Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia
• Supnik's simulators
• Ed Thelen's 1401 restoration project page
• Tom Van Vleck's short story of his 1401 experiences
• David Weibel's 1401 Java Applet
• The 1401 page at Paul White's "Museum of Ancient Computing"
• The manuals leave some questions unanswered....

Manuals, user-developed applications, and the engineering drawings used by the CE's for field service are also of interest.

If you have any of this kind of stuff, or know anybody who might, please contact me.

If you think you might know some of the 1401 guys I'm looking for please contact me.

Do you remember subtle details of the 1401? I have some questions about how the machine works. The answers are important if we hope to get accurate simulators. If you know the answers, please contact me.

Other Stuff and Links

• Bendix G-15 site in Australia
• Burroughs stuff
• Univac stuff
• Varian stuff
• The Vintage Computer Festival has a large links library

Other parts of the world

• Haus zur Geschichte der IBM Datenverarbeitung (House of the History of IBM Data Processing) has an on-line museum. They have a working 1401 at their physical museum in Sindelfingen, Germany. Their configuration is 1401 (40 - 25 623 C2), 1406 storage expansion (16k total), 1402, 1403, 1407, 2x729II, 2x729IV and one 1311.
• Computer Museum of the University of Amsterdam
• Museu Virtua de Informática -- In Portuguese
• There is a list of Virtual Library Museum Pages page, and a Virtual Museum of Computing