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IBM 1401 Mainframe, the Musical

Wired: When IBM chief maintenance engineer Jóhann Gunnarsson started tinkering with the IBM 1401 Data Processing System, believed to have been the first computer to arrive in his native Iceland in 1964, he noticed an electromagnetic leak from the machine's memory caused a deep, cellolike hum to come from nearby AM radios.

Posted by Physics Today on June 29, 2007 10:21 AM |

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