Allen Brunson
ntThis is a IBM 704 introduced by IBM in 1954. 1:16 scale model, hand made in mostly polystyrene.
The IBM 704 was the first mass-produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware. The 704 used vacuum tube logic circuitry and core memory.
Simon ZerafaI suspect that you and Marc might appreciate these amazing scale models 🙂👍
Robert Thau@6502B Also notable for being the first machine on which FORTRAN and LISP were implemented -- the first machine-independent programming languages. (COBOL was the first practical language deliberately made that way, but by the time it shipped, there were already FORTRAN compilers for multiple machines -- the people who threw the language together had done it by accident!)
Cameron Talley@6502B these are beautiful!
Karl Auerbach@6502B - A predecessor, the ANSF Q-7 was used for SAGE. It was programmed at SDC (Santa Monica) and I later worked in the building that once housed a Q7 (and later the Q32.)
sxpert@6502B it's missing the arduino inside to simulate the computer 😆
ConsoleWitch@6502B Ok, now I absolutely must own this.
KayhrynTinkOh La...ME remembers these things!
ME sis & bro-in-law began a biz in 1974 using a *home computer* that was approx the size of a large Refrigerator on it's side!
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They had to write their own programming to get it to work!
How far *miniaturization* has brought us...eh!
Arclight@6502B Please tell me this comes with a tiny FORTRAN compiler.
Wikinaut
Ann Effes@6502B The fun part is that you could built in a small computer in the 1:16 modell (raspi or the like) which would have WAY MORE compute power than the original IBM 704.
@byAndreas🤟😌✨@6502B @pluralistic Smoll Data.
Equationeer@6502B Wow, that is seriously nice.
Trammell Hudson
Simon Walters@6502B You must have some SERIOUS free time :) Lovely work :)
Tom von Clef@6502B very cool. My grandfather used to sell these machines. We have an old IBM catalog somewhere with them.
@tomvonclef cool memorabilia!
berlin_radler😷🐘@6502B Looks like my working space at the "Hessische Zentrale für Datenverarbeitung" in the summer of 88😍
David Koontz@6502B wow that great
Belghast 
@6502B oh wow I love your stuff, I remember seeing a video from LGR over the 5150 and it was amazing.
nerdybutcute 
@6502B my dad worked on this model!
Dave (He/Him/His)@6502B I'd love to get my hands on this model. Have read about these things, but never touched one.
Bruno Philipe@6502B @kenshirriff would probably like this!
wakest likes your bugs ⁂@6502B omg this is adorable
Gadfly (-booq-)@6502B Ah yes.
The First Microcomputer.
Sven A. Schmidt@6502B Wow, that hand looks crazy real, can’t believe it’s polystyrene!
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela@6502B thanks for the alt-text! Even as a sighted user, it is really nice to see what the author wants to emphasize in the image.
quatrezoneillles@6502B
You ought to know about
http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
who built a 1/10 scale *functioning* Cray-1
You ought to know about
http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
who built a 1/10 scale *functioning* Cray-1
@quatrezoneilles Thats a cool project, thanks for the link
@6502B Ours was a very grey 7094 (or as the insiders knew it - "709 T 4" with T for "transistor".)
I liked the rows of "sense switches". I had hear that somebody rigged up a bunch of (36) motorized "fingers" so that the sense switches could be flipped under remote control. Probably one of the earliest examples of computer porn.
And ours (UCLA) had oil-cooled memory which, of course, like all memory, leaked (but this memory leak had to be cleaned up with a soapy mop and bucket.)
permacultureandpolitics@6502B I used to back up daily data every night onto 16” reel to reel tapes, then label them and store them in a large very air conditioned room.
🍂:･*Fweeblies*:･🍂@6502B I love stuff like this
Ada Hashtag@6502B this. is. ADORABLE.
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ@6502B Can you pull up the floor tiles to reveal the big fat channel cables?
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Tanja Wawuschel
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Miniatua Limited Edition | IBM 1401 https://miniatua.com/work/ibm1401/ Soooo nice, me wants! #xp
Matt Hauger@6502B @shuttersparks Incredible work! I’m also astonished by the year—I don’t think I realized that there WERE mainframes in the early 50s!
Ridiculous Ginger@6502B I love this! It’s like the Friendly Giant (🇨🇦 kids tv show from back in the day) does retro computing lol.
(But seriously, the details on this are amazing!)
Half Cocked Law@6502B Not pictured: boxes of punch cards with one card out of order.
SjaakLaan@6502B This should be a LEGO kit.
KontributeGaming@6502B these are beautiful, can I ask how you get the surfaces of polystyrene so smooth and flat? Ton of paint or ton of sandpaper?
@KontributeGaming I use thin sheet of styrene, but yeah still need ton of sand paper, airbrush and varnish
@6502B thanks for that, I could never figure out how people made polystyrene have such perfect surfaces.
While I got you I have to say the war games one you did is especially beautiful, what you do is amazing.
Mrs RavenTAB machines were the best!
Self-verified punch cards!
Super fun tasks like wiring the interpreter panel to print a heading on the cards!
The wailing when someone dropped a box of cards and knew they had to be fed thru the sorter again.