Just thought this might interest those who remember the 1401. :-) ------------------
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2007/07/IBM1401_Musical 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. ....... -- ************************************************************************ Shimon Lebowitz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] VM System Programmer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Israel Police National HQ. http://www.poboxes.com/shimonpgp Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972 2 542-9877 fax: 542-9308 ************************************************************************
