The IBM 1401 mainframe runs "Edith" 

Indeed, that the pun is intentional is given away by the formulation "Weitere Auskunft" which is typical for the "counter" sense but would be a little less in context for a computer.

I guess for English the best fit would be: Whatever your intended desires are, the 1401 isn't capable of allowing you to do everything you want.

Took me a minute but I can't believe I got it

@@Clancydaenlightened Don't think "capable" is very fitting here, since it would of course be capable to print that inappropriate "ASCII" (yeah .. isn't ASCII)-art. "(jemand) lässt nicht alles mit sich machen" quite strongly implies a deliberate denial, so .. "won't allow you to do that to/with her/it" maybe?

@@VintageTechFan "(Jemand) lässt nicht alles mit sich machen" ... I'd translate it roughly as "you'd better not mess around with (somebody)". That's not word-for-word of course.

present time

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@@predawka and you don't seem to understand...

So... is this a Matrix reference or just a coincidence?

Sophie is best girl

NOTICE ME SENPAI!!!!!! 👯

pfffff

Is that the confederate flag int the background of your PFP?

For what it is worth, that is pronounced “wife”. The u is silent.

If you want to see some really good ascii art, see if you can find any old newsgroup posts by Mike Jittlov from the 1980s. I guess that would be Google Groups these days. He was one talented guy.

This computer predates ASCII.

ASCII encoding has been around since telegraphs and teletypes

You mean EBCDIC artist?

This computer is from 1959 and Wikipedia has the following to say about ASCII: "ASCII was developed from telegraph code. Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's (ASA) (now the American National Standards Institute or ANSI) X3.2 subcommittee. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963,[3][4] underwent a major revision during 1967,[5][6] and experienced its most recent update during 1986.[7]"

I want IBM 401 pronz now

lolx2

I think it can be found at sophie dot com No, better you don't try that.

Hatter?... or what?

@@gorillaau I tried it, and it's... odd.

or else im pausing it and whack something out of anger

Lol same

Actually, 1960s computers are either 12 (like PDP-8), 18 (like PDP-1, PDP-7), 24 (like SDS940), 36 (PDP-10), or 60 bit (CDC6600)

This machine is more like a 6 bit machine, if you don't include parity or anything.

Watch Ben eater for the 4bit computer..

8 Tits Guy

Great info. We have not located an "original" English version yet.

neofetch for the 1401 seemed classy

it would be interesting to see it print a text present day meme... lol

The "D" only makes it better!

Hah!

SHE WANTS THE D

switch E prints 4K resolution full colour live action hardcore p***

@@revsnowfox3613 You caught the big G

hey, I know something like the second one from modern UNIX

indeed...

2d women were around in america long before the anime craze

These are just like discovering cave paintings. Anime, on the other hand, is the 2nd Renaissance.

Read about Tijuana bibles.

Hey man, the US invented the anime style so it just travels in cycles.

You really cannot imagine the amount of PAPER it took to get this program right :-)

I said just the same thing!

I love these old computers

mustve been hard; coding one handed

Toni Turnwald what did the other versions do?

quite complicated to explain. I know actually 5 different Versions of Edith, the Version you have should be No4c ( I count from the German view point ) Also when it's Version 4c you have actually 3 pictures inside, but if you have Version 4c1.11 there is a hidden pic, switch 1off, 2on,3on,4on,5 till 7 off and the system should be after the reading in the RUN Option stay, than you can see pic No4, if you have Version 4c1.11 ( from the Germans ). So, the other Versions of Edith are. I will start with the last one, because with that Version I worked many times Version No.5 it was build on Forth and it was used as a " Gate-way" to send the program code to the early CP/M Systems, and there there was also a Version of Edith with brings up the different program code into the CP/M System to work, with a few easy modifications. Version No.4 this is that Version you have are the funny options of the Edith program, this was some Version that runs on a few different early Computers till the late 70s, because it was structured programmed and with Forth it works on all Systems with a A2 or A3 printer. Version No.3 of the Edith Package ( Here in Germany ) it was for collecting Data and to transmit that Data to other Systems via a 24h online telephone line. Version No.2 was the Compiler for the Edith Package, it means you got a simple code of program for your company and than you have to build that individual for your business and when you finished the program part you used this compiler, because it made some sort of code, that runs on many machines. Version No.1 was here in German ( it's hard to explain ), it was on about 750 cards and it runs only on full expanded machines, it was used in the Chemistry industry for analyzing chemical reactions and to calculate molecule structures, but actually here in German there where 4 Versions of Version No.,1 available. The 2nd Version of No.1 was the main program for Edith, where you can write your own Edith programs and from this Version there comes or stats all the rest Version Numbers, include this one you have. Also in the Version No1 ( the 2nd part ) there was some sort of Demo-program what Edith can do for you. Then Version No1 the 3rd was for a few banks like Sparkasse or Raiffeisenabk here in Germany for their control of the early bank accounts. This Version was on about 800 cards. Version No.1 then 4th was a simple program, it only counts and calculates some astronomical data on the early days. ! BUT ! also on the east-block of Germany there was a Version of Edith it was the complete Version 1,2 and their own build Version No.6, they used this for some early defense calculations. So, I hope I have helped you a little, if you like more information about Edith, because it was a pretty good program code, feel free to ask. cheerio Toni

PS: Sorry for my bad English, but I'm, from Germany, smile

Weiß man eigentlich auch genaueres über die Herkunft der Programme? Hast du einen Buch tipp dafür oder einen Link? :)

fatcat Nee, ein Buch nnicht, aber die Software auf y-Blättern A3' und Magnetband, sowie einige Texte dazu irgendwo, das müsste ich alles heraus suchen. LG. Toni

@DRZ 400 Boy scouts should remain boy scouts! Redicliouse the pc garbage going on these days! What next?

@DRZ 400 OK mate no problem's

@DRZ 400 well said for a motorcycle

@@NathanChisholm041 boy scouts ARE still boy scouts... nothing has changed whatsoever. I don't understand what the issue is.

Actually, the 1960s were the decade during which the demographics of computer programmers shifted from mainly women to predominantly men, but still about 30-50% of computer programmers were women in the 1960s.

Growing up in the 60's, every Christmas my rather brought home a long printout from NDSU - Merry Christmas with (I think) Santa and reindeer. I thought it was so cool that the M was made out of capital M's, the e's were made out of lower case e's, and so on. And IIRC, the card stack was only 2 or 3 inches thick. I believed until 30 seconds ago that my dad wrote the program himself. But I now have my doubts. I still wonder what happened to the card stack as I'm sure I recall seeing as late as my high school years in the late 70's.

Oh, they have a lot of humor - it's just not funny - on the other hand they are funny, but that has nothing to do with the humor :-) (me Austrian)

That reminds me of that old joke.. How many Germany does it take to change a light bulb? One. They are efficient and have no sense of humor. Now guess where I am from.. yup, Germany. :)

"German humor is no laughing matter"

"No, but I know crazy." We geeks all are a little crazy and curious, a dangerous combination.

@@0000Sierra117 Not at all. We take humor *really* seriously. :o)

Cool keyboard

Or become president and screw the entire world.

Someone consumed an entire 5lb bag of carrots daily for a week.

Or lay off the spray-on fake tan :P

+Ryges: I take this as a joke. But for the record, not fake at all. Pr. Alilunas is a specialist of the subject. He wrote a scholarly book about the history of adult media: www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=978052091713 . He actually sent us a very nice thank you email, explaining that this was quite significant (for his research that is), since apparently adult computer media can all be traced back to Edith and the IBM 1401. A distinction I certainly did not expect our machine to have!

CuriousMarc it was indeed a joke.

@@CuriousMarc dammit the link is broken

@@slendi9623 The second "2" is missing. The correct link is www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520291713

UnderDubz this was before anime had come to the US, so not hentai! :D

@@therealbobmayo5065 how to print ascii pin up drawings in the 1960s

@@UnderDubz but IBM used EBCDIC, not ASCII :)

Men of Culture existed in every Century.

it explodes

She gets the D? I had to say it!

Atlas ICBM launch code is completed.

They get much larger?

Flicking the C is enough for Edith, she has no use for D.

You got it right, French living in the US. I learned German at school while I was in France. I forgot most of it though...

Cool! Unfortunately I skipped learning French in school, which is usually very popular in Germany, so I only speak German and English. But dealing with colleagues in France quite a bit, who usually speak English when talking to us, I immediately recognized your nice French accent. Thanks for all the great videos on this channel! :)

There were also programs that printed letter combinations designed to make the hammer sounds produce musical notes and play songs. There were also programs (different for each computer) that performed counting loops in the CPU designed to produce radio waves (an unavoidable by-product of fast switching) that could be picked up on a properly tuned FM radio to play songs. However, once interruptions and multitasking were available, these music programs could not produce reliable pitches or tempi to reproduce music, since no one program had total control of the CPU. But the random tones produced over the air (in the same room, of course) still provided a way of knowing when no processing was being done, so for a few years afterward, some operators preferred to leave a radio on as a "monitor" to alert them (by silence or a steady tone) that something was wrong.

Yup - while I never heard any printer "songs" - the sounds the typical IBM line printer made while printing the pics was interesting in itself (especially pics with overprints for additional grey-tones). As for programs running on processors to make music (on the radio) - I know of them, but haven't seen them work in person. (I believe the PDP-8 was used - never worked on one, my first was a PDP-11/34a - great machine for it's day)

Tim B I have a tape of most of the printer art. Snoopy, JFK, the moon, etc

Yeah. Today we have to make do with photographs. LOL.

Yes, we have them. We don't like to use the printer music one though, as it stresses the character chain, and we don't have that many left.