Nicolas Temese’s miniature model of the IBM 1401 computer system. The real version was created in 1959 and rented for $2,500 a month (£2,032, AU$3,641).
Nicolas Temese
Computers have gotten a lot smaller since 1959, when IBM created the 1401 data processing system, touted as the world’s first affordable general purpose computer. But Nicolas Temese, a Montreal indie game developer and animation studio technical developer, decided to remake the 1401 in miniature mode. Like really, reallly miniature.
“I have always been interested in computer history in general,” Temese told me. “People often forget how…
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