Computing fossils: Old tech holding on for dear life - Network World Fusion
11 May 2012, 10:23 am
In a strict sense, an IBM 402 isn't even a computer -- it's a tabulating machine, "programmed" by arranging wires on a plugboard. Some of the operations it can perform have analogies in modern database operations (the Wikipedia article on the ...

Really old technology that's still working today - ITBusiness.ca
10 May 2012, 6:59 pm
In a strict sense, an IBM 402 isn't even a computer -- it's a tabulating machine, "programmed" by arranging wires on a plugboard. Some of the operations it can perform have analogies in modern database operations. They were quite reliable, and if you only ...