IBM 1401, a User's Manual Part I - IBM 1401 Processing Unit

great music!

that will always remain my fav album from him...it is totaly haunting me.

Buying this album right now.

This is awesome.

Also, an awesome use of this song can be found below. Quite a powerful video if you ask me.

/watch?v=Vg4AjD1fUaw

Check the album "Fordlandia" too. Cheers.

i can't see that being at all possible, in this day and age, especially being on a pc using electric to write useless comments, oh...it must be ok if you have a mac

The IBM 1401 was a computer made by International Business Machines during the '50s that was a relatively small (compared to the other IBM machines of the time) machine.

It was a punch card system with tape access (in most cases). Though it could also be outfit with a variety of peripherals (disk storage, communications equipment, OCR equipment, and even an online data entry console).

It was a very versatile machine, that could be used by itself or as an I/O processor for a bigger system.

I know but why did the authour choose IBM? to express his feelings I guess.

Why'd the author/composer choose the IBM 1401 as his subject matter?

Well from the website of the artist, it is stated that he was inspired by an old audio recording of the 1401 his father made on a reel-to-reel tape when the 1401 was "decommissioned" several years (decades?) ago. (The tape he recorded over -- most humorously -- was the actual user's manual audio recording for the 1401.)

I know thats what I ment, "Inspired"

its not about the fucking video though is it