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CuriousMarc (I think, not sure if typed correctly) has a lot of behind the scenes videos on YouTube for that vintage computer stuff, mostly at the Computer Hist
by oneplane 9y ago
CuriousMarc (I think, not sure if typed correctly) has a lot of behind the scenes videos on YouTube for that vintage computer stuff, mostly at the Computer History Museum where they work on the IBM 1401 and the Xerox Palo Alto.
Some of the repairs are for the tape drives, some are for the CPU itself, it's all really interesting to see.
- kens 9y agoCuriousMarc's YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell and has lots of videos of the IBM 1401 as well as the Xerox Alto restoration, HP hardware, and other interesting things.
- jxramos 9y agoCool stuff, I'm watching [The IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFQ3sajIdaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFQ3sajIdaM) and seeing that alternating green and white printer paper brought back some old memories of when dot-matrix printer paper was used as scratch paper during school days. Impressive to even see its still for sale https://www.google.com/shopping/product/13500800368299416699 https://www.google.com/shopping/product/13500800368299416699
- oneplane 9y agoI like how they also have a lot of stuff on custom hardware, like FPGA boards to read the diablo disk packs and the 1401 tape emulator.