The IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II

Great job, guys! Worked on the IRIS-50/80/SIRIS OS (French) mainframes back in the early '80s, felt nostalgic seeing this. So entertaining this clip! Cheers!

Fascinating. There are so many steel parts or hand-made elements that have to work together. I doubt there is any manual on how to recreate the parts of this computer, after all, there are no spare parts for this and never have been, because IBM created it for itself.

Fortran 77？

the mobile this person in red is carrying itself is meant for a museum.

And this machine was designed without a computer

This thing is almost as powerful as my arduino

As a young EE its like watching WW veterans.

As a 33 year phone company Installation veteran, I still appreciate those old computer rooms with the drop tile floors. And the power requirements those machines required was insane.

Recuerdo este lenguaje tambien el ada .. el cobol.. Y otros que no recuerdo

it says 1402 dddddddddddddd

enough to land on the moon and return

from this view of 1959's of IBM machine running/compile FORTRAN II at year 2023 (64 years ago)...LETS IMAGINE...How computer machine or language such as Python/C++/Java/Perl/SQL/Javascript/etc. run/compile at 64 years later when Artificial Intelligence almost Very Very Advanced...I dont know we will happy or worried at that time

If the program instructions are on the tape, what is on the cards, additional data?

Maybe the printer stall has affected some timings and caused an error?

IBM 1401 компилирует и запускает Fortnite 2

I was the systems programmer for a IBM 7040 that used a 1401 and it's peripherals to perform I/O. I know that the 1401 ran Cobol and was used at times by a business programmer that we had on staff. A 1620/1710 could run Fortrash. I learned to program on a 1620 using a GoTran compiler.

Don't worry it is not python source code in the card reader.

İlginç.

Если бы не было ребят со старыми компьютерами не было бы прогресса.

Real magic!

50 years later I can still hear the keypunch machine in my head! We knew it was a crappy way of doing things even in the 70s but it's all we had. Friken card decks of frustration!

I started using an IBM 1620 and then moved up to the 1401 in 1966. It was fun thing to see an AM radio on top of the CPU and have a program play music. COBOL compilations took about 3 hours.

интересно, они их потом на каэмки раскурочили?))

The 1959 version of copy /t1 /t2. It's a bit more involved, and it takes a little longer, but it does the same thing.

It is like an ATM counting... source code instead of money.

That made me so happy. I worked at some "modern" IBM mainframes, where all of that is "emulated" (like how it calls lines of a batch job as "card" - or the serial output as "printer"). It was so heartwarming to see the joy of everyone in this video - even when everything crashes and they had to troubleshoot CPU registers and using non-ASCII tables.

I worked in IBM for 14 years and happy to see this guy working :D

PLEASE TRANSLATE COS MY ENGLISH IS SHITTY
Recuerdo que estas máquinas eran exclusivas de los grandes bancos.
Requerían una habitación con aire acondicionado.
Cierta vez hubo un problema que el técnico no supo solucionar.
Entonces vinieron tres de ellos, no escuchábamos lo que hablaban pero se los veía desconcertados, moviendo la cabeza de un lado hacia otro en un gesto de negación.
Aporto el dato: Las tarjetas de llamaban "tarjetas Hollerit o Hollerith"
Estuve a un paso de trabajar en Burroghs pero de cerca de 90 aspirantes sólo quedamos para el final dos personas.
Habíamos pasado por test psicotécnicos, pruebas de matemáticas y de electrónica avanzada.
No pude contestar alguna pregunta ya que me costaba entender la mala traducción de la prueba.

Очень интересно. Спасибо.

I was taught FORTRAN77 on an IBM back in the mid '80's. This really brings back memories!

Just CTRL+Z

What games does it have!?

Can i play gta 5 in this.

linux users going on google be like:

thanks for the pleasure of viewing that machine

When I went to the University of Minnesota, they had a 1401 (I think) that ran a Van de Graff tandem particle accelerator.
This sounds incredibly old now, but the hardware was only 10 years old at the time.

And the I Pad I am watching on is more powerful

これやったことある。大学のセンターにあった。コンピューターの授業でカードを投入して計算させた。懐かしい。

This dredges up a lot of memories!
But we used a 360 and assembly back in the day.
Fond memories!

My first prog. language is FORTRAN. Punch card, Line printer, Monochrome green character monitor... in computer room, like zoo.

What a blast from the past! I was at VFMA Studying Fortran II under Colonel Wright. I spent many a happy hour at the IBM 026 punch card machine.

Wow! This brought back memories, learning how to write in Fortran IV as a chemical engineering undergraduate in the 1960s on an IBM 1620.

How old is the SPECTRA main frame?

The good old times! When programmers had to write effective code instead of clicking around and expecting the IDE and the testing team to make their code working well.

I kind of remember learning Fortran but i never used it except for my university class. I also remember punch cards.

IBM led the way for the most part. It got competition from Univac, Burroughs, and Control Data. Now all such companies are now deceased or shrunken down to small bits. The rat race is over. No winner. 😮😮

The team looks like Kraftwerk, love it! Amazing work.

This brings back memories. I used to work on Univac 418-IIIs back in the day.

We did have to take our tray with punch cards down to the data control area for compiling. Waited hours for results.
Use to get a bunch of old punch cards in a tray back to a programmer eagerly waiting for his results. And clumsily drop the tray in front of him apologising. He went white. 😂😂😂🎉