Re: 360 Revolution - A 40th anniversary celebration and inside look at the $5 billion bet that changed computing and business forever.

I worked at the Poughkeepsie plant when that happened , it was quite a project.

Did anyone notice the address where the museum is "1401" ?

Now how many people remember what a "1401" was ?


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> Lee Courtney wrote:
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> > YOU ARE INVITED TO A FASCINATING MILESTONE EVENT...
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> > "360 REVOLUTION"
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> Wow! This is a must!
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>
> Thanks,
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>
> Bob

Art Young Boulder

Art Young wrote:
> I worked at the Poughkeepsie plant when that happened , it was quite a project.
>
> Did anyone notice the address where the museum is "1401" ?
>
> Now how many people remember what a "1401" was ?
>
>
> Bob Cain <arcane@arcanemethods.com> wrote in message news:<c41ul618hs@enews4.newsguy.com>...
>
>>Lee Courtney wrote:
>>
>>
>>>YOU ARE INVITED TO A FASCINATING MILESTONE EVENT...
>>>
>>>"360 REVOLUTION"
>>
>>Wow! This is a must!
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>
>>Bob
>
>
> Art Young Boulder


I had two... one with 4k and one with 12.

How big was yours?

(no comment.)


Remember the 1410 or 1440?
or a 1710 or 1620?
700 and 7000 series machines?
Bendex G15?

I think I date myself if I admitted to knowing what
Card Tabulation equipment was - 401, 410 printers -
81, 83 sorters - 027, 029 keypunches

Don't remember the model number for the collating punch or the
one that printed 40 columns on the top of a 80 column card deck.

I do remember the look on a buddies face when I offered to "print"
his card deck, and I handed him back a laced deck from the card repro
punch (after swapping hands when he wasn't looking).

I even remember watching a 650 running - but I never programmed it.

All right, so I am older than the hills...

....but then I walked xx Miles to school and back again, barefoot, in the
freezing snow up to my waist, uphill, both ways in a hurricane. <grin>


40 years and running - and I still enjoy solving problems...

Happy 30th, "MVS"!

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Art Young wrote:

> I worked at the Poughkeepsie plant when that happened , it was quite a project.

> Did anyone notice the address where the museum is "1401" ?

> Now how many people remember what a "1401" was ?

They were lucky. It is a building previously owned by
Silicon Graphics, and already had that number.

Then again, if you try hard enough you can find a connection
between any number and a historical computer of some kind.

It would be nice if they had a running 1401, though.

-- glen

"Bill Turner, WB4ALM" <Abracadabra-magic-wb4alm@arrl.net> wrote in message
news:Swhcc.16859$lt2.4075@newsread1.news.pas.earth link.net...
> Art Young wrote:
> > I worked at the Poughkeepsie plant when that happened , it was quite a
project.
> >
> > Did anyone notice the address where the museum is "1401" ?
> >
> > Now how many people remember what a "1401" was ?
> >
> >
> > Bob Cain <arcane@arcanemethods.com> wrote in message
news:<c41ul618hs@enews4.newsguy.com>...
> >
> >>Lee Courtney wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>YOU ARE INVITED TO A FASCINATING MILESTONE EVENT...
> >>>
> >>>"360 REVOLUTION"
> >>
> >>Wow! This is a must!
> >>
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >>Bob
> >
> >
> > Art Young Boulder
>
>
> I had two... one with 4k and one with 12.
>
> How big was yours?
>
> (no comment.)
>
>
> Remember the 1410 or 1440?

yup -- and IOCS . . . /phil

All,

> > Did anyone notice the address where the museum is "1401" ?

Yes, and the 1620 Project people did also. They advocated to change the
street number with the city, to no avail. Life is not fair!

> It would be nice if they had a running 1401, though.

Museum now has two. One is on exhibit, second is in machine room/Restoration
Lab. Couple leads have started putting together a restoration plan. If
you're in the Bay area (or remote and interested) send an email to
1401_team@computerhistory.org. Team is especially interested in contacting
any former CEs or SEs.

Cheers,

Lee Courtney
Volunteer
Computer History Museum


"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
news:rricc.195583$po.1013319@attbi_s52...
> Art Young wrote:
>
> > I worked at the Poughkeepsie plant when that happened , it was quite a
project.
>
> > Did anyone notice the address where the museum is "1401" ?
>
> > Now how many people remember what a "1401" was ?
>
> They were lucky. It is a building previously owned by
> Silicon Graphics, and already had that number.
>
> Then again, if you try hard enough you can find a connection
> between any number and a historical computer of some kind.
>
> It would be nice if they had a running 1401, though.
>
> -- glen
>

"Lee Courtney" <lcourtney@NOSPAM-mvista.com> wrote in message
news:1074crrcub7n196@corp.supernews.com...
> All,
>
> > > Did anyone notice the address where the museum is "1401" ?
>
> Yes, and the 1620 Project people did also. They advocated to change the
> street number with the city, to no avail. Life is not fair!
>
Speaking of the 1620 - is that the model that was nicknamed the CADET? It
stood for "Can't Add - Doesn't Even Try" because it had no math processor
and used table lookup instead.

geo

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:56:36 -0400
"George Weiss" <gfweiss@teamtechsystems.com> wrote:

:Speaking of the 1620 - is that the model that was nicknamed the CADET? It
:stood for "Can't Add - Doesn't Even Try" because it had no math processor
:and used table lookup instead.

That is, indeed, the story which I always heard.

| Charles A. Crayne wrote:
|> George Weiss wrote:
|> Speaking of the 1620 - is that the model that was nicknamed the CADET? It
|> stood for "Can't Add - Doesn't Even Try" because it had no math processor
|> and used table lookup instead.
| That is, indeed, the story which I always heard.

The IBM 1620 (later renamed to the 1620 I) used a table lookup for adding and
multipling (and also for subtraction and division in a fashion).

The IBM 1620 II didn't require a table for either. Saying that the earlier
model didn't have a math processor is assuming a very narrow definition of
what a math processor is. There was a floating point (optional) feature,
and all arithmetic was in decimal (not binary). The IBM 1620 was a BCD
machine (binary-coding decimal).

By modifying the addition/multiplication table, one could do arithmetic in
any base <= 10 (on the model I). __________________________________Gerard S.

"Lee Courtney" <lcourtney@NOSPAM-mvista.com> wrote in message news:<1074crrcub7n196@corp.supernews.com>...
> All,
>
> > > Did anyone notice the address where the museum is "1401" ?
>
> Yes, and the 1620 Project people did also. They advocated to change the
> street number with the city, to no avail. Life is not fair!
>
> > It would be nice if they had a running 1401, though.
>
> Museum now has two. One is on exhibit, second is in machine room/Restoration
> Lab. Couple leads have started putting together a restoration plan. If
> you're in the Bay area (or remote and interested) send an email to
> 1401_team@computerhistory.org. Team is especially interested in contacting
> any former CEs or SEs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lee Courtney


Hey Lee you mite think about posting the Museum message on the Fortran
message board They go way back before system/360. I remember when
working at Pok'epsie on the 1410 we had 1401 Fortran tape, ran the
1410in 1401 mode , changed the card reader instructions to point to
the console printer and we used the 1410 as a super calculator. Ah
that was the good od days Hi

Art Young

Boulder,CO.
> Volunteer
> Computer History Museum
>
>
> "glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
> news:rricc.195583$po.1013319@attbi_s52...
> > Art Young wrote:
> >
> > > I worked at the Poughkeepsie plant when that happened , it was quite a
> project.
>
> > > Did anyone notice the address where the museum is "1401" ?
>
> > > Now how many people remember what a "1401" was ?
> >
> > They were lucky. It is a building previously owned by
> > Silicon Graphics, and already had that number.
> >
> > Then again, if you try hard enough you can find a connection
> > between any number and a historical computer of some kind.
> >
> > It would be nice if they had a running 1401, though.
> >
> > -- glen
> >