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1401 Movies-n-Sounds

Started - March 24, 2006 Updated - August 15, 2007

IBM 1403, 1402, 729, 026 movies

Bill Selmeier's videos mostly of 1401 and other computer restorations
for movies and sounds related to the other antique computing equipment, click here

Robert Garner has been taking some movies and sounds of the 1401 area
Sounds - .mp3 files about 1 megabyte long

Low resolution movies - getting practice ;-))

IBM 1403, 1402, 729, 026 movies at URL http://homepage.mac.com/robgarn/iMovieTheater8.html
(Click on the top line of the black screen, all four movies will down load, then play in sequence.)

local test of 'IBM 1403, 1402, 729, 026 Sounds' of http://homepage.mac.com/robgarn/.Movies/IBM1401SystemSounds.mov

"Music" from a 1403 printer under control of a 1401 from Ron Mak - .mp3 files

- (about 0.4 to 2.5 megabytes each) - shortest to longest - Performance rights not worked out with ASCAP :-|
- All below known to work with Windows Media Player, one person reported that Nero Media Player did not work for them.

1401 RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) "music" from Iceland - probably RIAA free ;-))

1401 Music - 3.3 MegaBytes at the Decommissioning & Farewell Ceremony of Iceland's first IBM 1401. Recorded by Johann Gunnarsson, et al.., March 12, 1971 at Klapparstigur 25 - 27 in Reykjavik, at the IBM Service Bureau. This was the last day of operation for a 1401 system in Iceland. We only had 2 of them altogether. (Other than later with the U.S. Navy)

Following posted with permission from Jóhann Gunnarsson < johg@centrum.is >

A modern composition and choreography by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson in honor of the decommissioning of an IBM 1401 in 1971, as recorded by his father.

Jóhann Jóhannsson's NPR "The World" interview:

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