Attendees: Ron Williams, Bob Erickson, Robert Garner, Stan Paddock, Bill Flora, Frank King, Don Luke, Douglas Martin, Bill Newman, Joe Preston, Ed Thelen, Allen Palmer, Ron Crane, Judith Haemmerle
Visitors: Johann Gunnarsson, Stephen Somerstien and several lost Computer History Museum visitors.
Johann Gunnarsson is the leading long distance visitor to the CHM IBM 1401 Restoration room. He lives in Iceland and in the 1960s maintained all of the IBM 1401 computers in Iceland. (2)
Johann Gunnarsson’s son Jóhann Jóhannsson was fascinated with the IBM 1401 and wrote a musical piece "IBM 1401 A User's Manual". This was played on one of the IBM 1401s before it was shut down for the last time. An interesting piece can be seen on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whvzDJGt-fk.
A sample of our own IBM 1401 playing music can be heard at: http://www.paddockdrayage.com/IBM1401PlayingMusic.wmv.
Robert Garner and Johann Gunnarsson are shown above in the IBM 1401 Restoration Room at CHM.
To make Tape Drive Three on the German IBM 1401 work right, you have to get right down to the internal problems. That is what Joe Preston is doing above.
Ed Thelen and Bob Erickson continue to work on the IBM Model B typewriter. Why Ed thinks you need a big Tektronix oscilloscope for this mechanical device, I have no idea.
Robert Garner, Ron Williams and Bill Flora have found something funny to laugh about. The Connecticut 1402 still has a lingering problem with the card reader so that must not be it.
Stan Paddock
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