Dancer and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir performs during IBM 1401: A User's Manual. Photo: Laurent Ziegler When IBM chief maintenance engineer Jóhann Gunnarsson started tinkering with the IBM 1401 ...

IBM's second successful commercial computer (the first was the 650). Introduced in 1959 and offered until 1971, the 1401 was an outstanding success. More than 12,000 systems were installed, and it was ...

On his first 4AD album, the Icelandic composer-- who has built a rewarding catalog based on ideas about technology and music-- takes the ache of nostalgia for obsolete technology and inflates the ...