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The Rebirth of the IBM 1401 Computer

An ancient machine, rescued from a garage and refurbished, now whirrs and clicks away again, just as it did way back in 1964

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Photo: Mark Richards
PLAYING WITH A FULL DECK: The IBM 026 keypunch, a design dating back to the 1940s, entered numbers and letters into a data card. <
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