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Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf]

https://ibm-1401.info/pictures/Proc-MIW-2017-Garner-1401PDP1.pdf
37•rbanffy•1w ago

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beachy•1w ago
When I started at IBM back in the 80s in NZ, there were plenty of 1403 printers still in operation, though no 1401 CPUs.

Since they were old even then, and NZ was something of a computing backwater (on a training course I met a guy who's territory of 3 or 4 floors of the world trade center had more machines than my territory of half of the North Island) there were no formal training courses on them, and I was on my own with the manuals and the insights of the gray beards in the company lunch room.

It wasn't until I found Ken Shirrif's magnificent animated explainer https://ibm-1401.info/KenShirriff-1403Animation.html many decades later that I really understood how the machines I had been fixing worked.

etaioinshrdlu•9h ago
Related topic - some of you may appreciate this great album! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401,_A_User%27s_Manual
leoc•7h ago
Unfortunately there seems to be a lack of easily-accessible information about the current or expected future state of TX-0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TX-0 , a computer of great importance and previously the crown jewel of the Boston Computer Museum, where TX-0 was restored and turned back on in 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDkEjjDumUY&t=229s https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/TCMR-V08.pdf . Now parts of it are in the CHM museum catalogue https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/search-c... , and ???

Qwen 3.8

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
626•nh43215rgb•10h ago•458 comments

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

375•section33•4h ago•32 comments

HMD Touch 4G

https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-touch-4g
33•thisislife2•2h ago•34 comments

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/
298•tosh•9h ago•388 comments

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard
334•chipweinberger•8h ago•155 comments

Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg8edqq5g5o
73•teleforce•6h ago•57 comments

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4
197•ObviouslyFlamer•7h ago•141 comments

Blender 5.2 LTS

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2/
275•makizar•5d ago•106 comments

Show HN: How much profit does your employer make per employee?

https://yourfairshare.info
8•IESAI_ski•46m ago•6 comments

OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/33972/files
243•AmazingTurtle•11h ago•105 comments

Cagire: Live Coding in Forth

https://cagire.raphaelforment.fr
50•surprisetalk•1w ago•8 comments

UnifiedIR for Julia

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/62334
54•vimarsh6739•22h ago•13 comments

C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8)

https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-basic-dungeon-part8/
29•ibobev•4h ago•1 comments

Transcribe.cpp

https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp
684•sebjones•18h ago•141 comments

The Zen of Parallel Programming

https://smolnero.com/posts/the-zen-of-parallel-programming
7•edgar_ortega•5d ago•0 comments

The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-MPEG-4-Patent-Expired
59•LorenDB•2h ago•13 comments

Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

https://twitter.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2078855608565207130
89•serialx•3h ago•25 comments

Infinities, impossibilities, and the man in the white linen suit

https://iain.so/infinities-impossibilities-and-the-man-in-the-white-linen-suit
45•iainharper•5d ago•35 comments

Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings

https://land-atlas-production.up.railway.app/welcome
33•L3dge•6d ago•12 comments

Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine/tree/main/micro
538•petewarden•5d ago•77 comments

I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

https://en.andros.dev/blog/0b8e451e/i-joined-the-indieweb-heres-what-i-learned/
99•andros•8h ago•64 comments

Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes

https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-texas-police-spent-4-5-million-on-four-chevy-tahoes
70•randycupertino•2h ago•36 comments

Less Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different

https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/less-is-more-why-soundcloud-low-passes-its-aac-transcodings/
14•1317•1h ago•4 comments

Codex Resets

https://codex-resets.com/
264•denysvitali•20h ago•174 comments

Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-still-dont-know-the-fastest-way-to-mult...
195•beardyw•6d ago•107 comments

Dupes (product clones) took over the world

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/493930/dupe-culture-fender-ugg-quince-tiktok-amazon-online-shopping
25•gumby•5d ago•22 comments

Neither GCC nor Clang are compliant with standard C++

https://sebsite.pw/w/20260708-badstdcxx.html
19•birdculture•2h ago•12 comments

Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

https://github.com/stupside/castor
297•xonery•18h ago•91 comments

The death and rebirth of my home server

https://sgt.hootr.club/blog/home-server-rebirth/
88•steinuil•8h ago•65 comments

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb
230•cdrnsf•21h ago•185 comments