Editing IBM 1401 (section)

==1401 culture==
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In October 2006, [[Iceland]]ic avant-garde musician [[Jóhann Jóhannsson]] released the album ''[[IBM 1401, A User's Manual]]'' through music publisher [[4AD]].<!--Host is up but this page is down: <ref>{{cite web |title= Jóhann Jóhannsson profile |work= 4AD web site |url= http://www.4ad.com/johannjohannsson/profile |title=ibm 1401, a user´s manual |access-date= June 2, 2010 }}</ref>--><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ernaomarsdottir.com/index.php?/othershows/ibm-1401-a-users-manual/ |title=IBM 1401, A User's Manual-Live in Italy |access-date=January 29, 2015}}</ref> The concept is based upon work done in 1964 by his father, Jóhann Gunnarsson, chief maintenance engineer of one of the country's first computers, and [[Elias Davidsson|Elías Daviðsson]],<ref name="Elias">{{cite web |url=http://www.ausersmanual.org/credits/ |title=Jóhann Jóhannsson: IBM 1401, A User's Manual |work=work's web site |access-date=January 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211064627/http://www.ausersmanual.org/credits/ |archive-date=February 11, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> one of the first programmers in the country. The album was originally written for a string quartet, organ and electronics and to accompany a dance piece by long-standing collaborator friend, Erna Ómarsdóttir. For the album recording, Jóhann has rewritten it for a sixty-piece string orchestra, adding a new final movement and incorporating electronics and vintage reel-to-reel recordings of a singing 1401 found in his father's attic.<ref name="Elias"/>

More well-known are various demo programs to play music on transistor radios placed on the CPU<ref>{{cite web | title = 1401-music-Movie | website=[[YouTube]] | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myt6DApmiv0 }}</ref> and computer "art", mostly [[kitsch]]y pictures printed using Xs and 0s on chain printers.<ref>{{Cite web |last= Gansing |first= Kristoffer |title= Working Paper version - Humans Thinking Like Machines - Incidental Media Art in the Swedish Welfare State |publisher= University of Malmö, School of Arts & Communication |year= 2007 |url= http://dspace.mah.se:8080/bitstream/handle/2043/7221/gansing_replace.pdf?sequence=1 |access-date= 29 November 2017 |archive-date= March 23, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120323154737/http://dspace.mah.se:8080/bitstream/handle/2043/7221/gansing_replace.pdf?sequence=1 |url-status= dead }}  A full version to be published in ''Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology'', VDG Weimar 2009</ref>
Other programs would generate music by having the printer print particular groups/sequences of characters using the impact of the printer hammers to generate tones.

An IBM 1401 was the first computer introduced in [[Nepal]] for the census purpose in 1971. It took about one year to take the census of the country. At that time the population of Nepal was about 10,000,000.