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Running 'Edith' on a 1959 IBM 1401

CuriousMarc · Demo · 11 min · 2018 · YouTube title: The IBM 1401 mainframe runs "Edith"
Why it's here

HN points to it as a fun, well-known example of line-printer art on early IBM hardware, and to the channel for vintage computing history.

What it covers

CuriousMarc runs the program 'Edith' on a 1959 IBM 1401 mainframe at the Computer History Museum. The program prints a famous line-printer image on the vintage machine. The video is part retro-computing demo and part joke.