The IBM 1401 is the machine that seems to have largely replaced the IBM 407, the last of the tabulators. The programming languages RPG and FARGO were designed to be easy to migrate to for people who programmed tabulators (by plugging wires into plug-boards). Tabulators are fascinating things. I have an old Wiley book on how to program them. Its pedagogical style is rather weird, not how one would do things today.
A dance to the music of mainframes
The IBM 1401 is the machine that seems to have largely replaced the IBM 407, the last of the tabulators. The programming languages RPG and FARGO were designed to be easy to migrate to for people who programmed tabulators (by plugging wires into plug-boards). Tabulators are fascinating things. I have an old Wiley book on how to program them. Its pedagogical style is rather weird, not how one would do things today.
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