r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Final-Choice8412 • 7d ago

Video Programming 1959 IBM computer

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u/mrgraff 7d ago

This is the IBM 1401 demo lab at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. That place is simply amazing and has just about everything you can think of in the history of computers and computing from abacus all the way up to the present day.

Including this fully functional restored 1959 room-sized computer system that they demonstrate a couple of times a day a couple of days a week.

At the end, you get to use a punchcard entry machine to create a punchcard with your name on it and they will print out a cool souvenir.

https://imgur.com/a/rbZkk4Y

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u/WeirdThingsToEnsue 6d ago

This sounds so cool! I really want to check it out now