Icelandic musician Jóhann Jóhannsson composed an album of music created with sounds created by the IBM 1401. This particular track also includes what seems like

Icelandic musician Jóhann Jóhannsson composed an album of music created with sounds created by the IBM 1401. This particular track also includes what seems like an audio recording of a technician going over the machine's specifications and some basic troubleshooting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPFAkBCizr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPFAkBCizr8 More information here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120307215225/http://www.ausersmanual.org/data/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120307215225/http://www.ausers... >In 1964, a computer - the IBM 1401 Data Processing System - arrived in Iceland, one of the very first computers to be imported into the country. The 1401 has been called the "Model T" of the computer industry - the first affordable, mass produced digital business computer. The chief maintenance engineer for this machine was Jóhann Gunnarsson, my father. A keen musician, he learned of an obscure method of making music on this computer - a purpose for which this business machine was not at all designed. The method was simple. The computer's memory emitted strong electromagnetic waves and by programming the memory in a certain way and by placing a radio receiver next to it, melodies could be coaxed out - captured by the receiver as a delicate, melancholy sine-wave tone.