A better translation for the last one (the sign) would be more like "Whatever the goal of your desires was, the 1401 does not allow everything to be done with her/it" Also, there is a small "joke" on the first sign: "Weitere Auskunft ... gibt Schalter B" -- The word "Schalter" in German is not only used for a switch but also for a counter in a bank or something. So the translation would be both "Further information about her qualities can be inquired by switch B" and "...can be inquired at counter B"
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.
@@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.
4:29 this is probably the oldest function prank I’ve ever seen preformed on a machine. How funny it will be when future historians try to play this program only to fake it being ‘jammed’, opening up the lid and getting flashed. -1960s >Present Day...
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 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 was a student operator on a 1401 in college. I had an opportunity to see Edith in all her glory so I looked at the cards and figured out which ones were needed to just print out the final version. Wrote a Autocoder command which would read the card images from RAMAC and immediately send it to the printer. Posted the “try this” to the bulletin board. Got me an invitation to the Professors office where I was reminded about the proper use of equipment and my job duties. Also was complemented on my initiative which should be pointed toward more business related goals. Guess I should have charged for using the command. Anyway this brought those memories all back. This were back when “PC” was not even a thing!
9:45 Translation: "We're writing to let you know that we're updating our privacy policy in preparation for the EU's General Data Protection Regulations ("GDPR") which will go into effect on May 25th, 2018."
The English version I remember started with something like, "This is Edith, an optional feature of the IBM 1401. For more information, please rerun with sense switch B on." The switch B version had the same initial text followed a brief blurb about the 1401 and the suggestion to run with sense switch C on for even more information. In the switch C version, the sign covered her boobs as well and was filled with the actual specs for the 1401!
As a lady I have to say I don't find this offensive... it would be kinda like thinking the erotic art found at Pompeii is offensive. (and that is much higher resolution!) XD I mean, it's not exactly a shock that guys in the 60s used computers for stuff like this. It's human nature, right? And there were presumably very few women around so what would stop them? You know, as a girl, I bought my first web hosting in 2001 because I wanted to post my questionable fangirl artwork and fiction someplace, and all the existing free hosts had rules about that stuff (also GeoCities or whoever would put ad banners on your site). We ladies do it too. If anything it's just sad that we had no representation back then... I'm glad times have changed and now any person can find something to look at on the internet. :)
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.
I know Edith and other girls from my FORTRAN semester (was about 1976). But there was also a remarkable print of a steam locomotive, the BIG BOY; about 5 feet long. Depending upon our professor was at vacation or on mission, we swapped above prints.
Lovely, I know Edith here in German, when my Dad runs the Office they Used Edith ti communicate with other Offices just for fun in their free time. They had many punch cards with different versions of Edith on the early Computer days. He told me. Cheers Form showing. Bye bye Toni
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
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
There were any number of programs like that for almost (probably all) computers with a printer in those days. When I was in college I ran off a copy of Sophie and gave it to a friend to sneak into the chemistry amphitheater just before the final exam and tape it to the front of the lecturer's podium. It stayed there for the next three hours, and probably longer. I have no idea what effect it had on overall class scores for that year. I was the only chemistry/math/physics major in the school that also knew where the computer lab was on campus, which should give you some idea of just how long ago that was.
Among the many capacities of SAGE, a massive 1950s air defense computer network (1st of its kind, many, many firsts) was to display a naked lady on the radar scope. Built largely by IBM, it was the fastest vacuum-tube computer ever built. Each unit the size of a football field and was actually two complete redundant computers, local and remote failures were thus defended against.
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. :)
These programs were quite widely written - I used to work on an IBM 1460, with ran three 1403 printers - at Xmas we wrote a program that printed Santa on his sleigh with the three printers working in parallel, playing Jingle Bells as they printed - by using one part, two part and four part listing on each of the three printers we got a good tonal range to the music. IT was so very simple back in 1969.
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.
Glad that they were able to find the program and recreate it. I wonder who the original programmer(s) were and how much time must have been spent to essentially have three different variations.
I loved those old machines. I started as s field service engineer for digital equipment corp in 1970. I used to work on this equipment (except the cpu). The sounds of a vintage computer room are great. The only thing not on this video are the smells of the vintage computer room.
In late 1964 and early 1965 I was at a research facilty in California which had an IBM 704 and an IBM 1401. There was a similar situation. Instead of a program there was a deck of data cards that when printed on the 1401's line printer a young lady would appear. So it wasn't a program but it was data; about two feet in the deck of cards. However this deck was not kept in a file cabinet. Off in a corner one had to lift up a floor tile to reveal the hiding place. The facility had a double floor typical for cooling computers in those days.
Very entertaining! The 1401 is a little before my time. I began working at IBM in Sweden in 1974 as a Customer Engineer and there were still a lot of 1403 printers at our customers. The last printer I was trained to fix was the big 3800 laser printer. What a beast that was! :) /Anders
Man, that brings back memories of high school. Spent hours learning machine language, auto order assembly, programming the ibm 024 and 029 keypunch drum, I’ve 129 “electronic” keypunch machine, creating 1403 printer “programming” ribbon, etc. what great fun to go back to the 1970s and my youth :)
This machine amazes me. I wish I was nearby it. Would love to volunteer my time to learn how it completely works, even if it includes just cleaning or dusting it.
That reminded me of an open house I went to at a NOAA facility in Seattle when I was a teenager (probably in the late 1970's). They had a large flatbed plotter they were proud off. It's vacuum table was maybe 5 by 10 feet (plus or minus a couple of feet). As I remember it (but my memory is admittedly a bit shaky), they started to run a demo plot on the plotter but shut it off after a few lines had been drawn. They changed to and ran a different program. After the demo, I asked the demonstrator why they changed programs and he showed me a previous complete plot of the program they started to run. And, you guessed it, it was a pin-up girl much like the ones you printed -- except with better resolution and in a reclining pose. Amazingly, I can't remember if she had cloths on or not. You'd think a teenage boy would remember if she didn't, so she probably did.
*People in 1959:* We have one of the most powerful and advanced computers of our time at our disposal *also people in 1959:* let it print out some boobs
+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!
At tech school there were printouts of the Mona Lisa and Alfred E. Neuman that used double-printed characters. I took them down and made line-by-line copies of them. I still have the punch cards and a computer tape version.
I never saw this coming; I guess people never change! You should have Sophie in all her appearances scanned and converted to plain-text ascii format-you know, for posterity!
Very early digital photography. I also remember seeing early examples of using a line printer to produce a graphic or (photographic) image. Another trick done with line printers was to make them play music by printing specific patterns of characters.
While in college I was a student operator on a 1401. We ran Edith and had a version that I remember was not as prudish. I created an autocoder subroutine that would go and read the card images from the disk that would immediately print out in the final Edith glory. Wow, I really appreciate the work you are doing.
I've lived near the Computer History Museum my whole life (59) and have never been inside there. Lagging supreme. The building was once the headquarters of Silicon Graphics before they built their new site, which eventually became Google's home base.
This brings back memories from 1967. My first machine was an English Electric KDF9, which noisily inhabited a room in the University of Sydney Physics building. We learnt a teaching subset of Algol. The "we" being a small group of first year physics students who volunteered to participate in a "not for credit" course "to see if physics students could learn to program". Turn around time during weekdays was 36 hours. The source code was on punched cards (we had to do any corrections on a hand punch!) by magical means a paper tape containing the binary code was produced for later execution. Any printed output appeared on a teletype, fed by paper tape. Later, I had a "long vacation" student employment and had to learn FORTRAN to do some geophysical calculations. Run times were very long on the local IBM, but virtually instantaneous on a Control Data timeshare machine once the program was debugged. Although I was a Physics and maths major, I ended up working in IT for the whole of my working life, but at that time I had no idea of the implications of my holiday job on my future career.
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! :)
Gosh this video brings back some old memories when I worked on an old IBM 360 /30 computer room... 1403 printer... 029 keypunch... the card reader... old tape drives.... 5081 punch cards! Dang... can I come work for you guys?
Interesting... While I hadn't heard about Edith specifically, while I was a student, there were plenty of line printer art images.. Somewhere I have card decks and tapes with the various datasets. (some used classic over-printing for better resolution). One of the nicest I recall was an image of the moon. These later images were just data printed by a small header program and a wee bit of JCL.
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)
I see this video now years laters (2024) and I worked with several computers mainframes in the past, e.g. in The Netherlands with the P1200 (or P1175), Bull DPS 7(000), Siemens 4004, and some more. IBM too, but only as a programmer. But the printeed ladies.... well, we had those everywhere! And one of a steam locomotive, really beautiful. Prints also had som doubleprinted characters, as in this days it was easy to let a printer do that.
Back in the 70's , when people actually had to compete for computer time to do their work, someone I know of asked for a given slot and was denied the slot. The scheduler was told: "If you don't give me the time I'll run the THUNDERBIRD program." The scheduler refused, and so soon the computer was set up to run THUNDERBIRD. This program was in essence a computer virus, which made the computer tape drives activation lights whirl in sequence like the turn signal on late 60's cars like a Thunderbird or Cougar, and would make the printers jam print the word THUNDERBIRD in big letters, then tractor shoot up 6 pages and repeat, with 3 printers running in sequence, paper flying everywhere, and the computer would continue to run like this unless/ until stopped by the correct typed in command. The guy got his computer time as requested.
Hello, compared to the IBM 1401, I am still very young when I am 20 years old, but I am always interested in computer technology, no matter how old or new it is. It's great fun watching them do their jobs. As a German I always find it funny to find something in German somewhere else. And remember, the IBM 1401 doesn't do everything with itself ;-)
I don't remember whether I saw Edith or Sophie back in the day but I'm sure I probably did see something similar coming off a 1403 printer. I remember printouts showing Snoopy were common being printed by a 1403 connected to an IBM 360. At a local university they had some basic wooden chairs to sit on when using an 029 keypunch machine. It was the perfect height. I could type faster on the keypunch than I could on a typewriter of the day. I still have printouts that came from a 1403. I also still have a manual and a control drum for an 029 along with a couple of decks of cards with a couple of programs on them that I was running back in the early 80s.
First computer I worked on was a 1440, the baby version of a 1401 with 4000 6-bit characters of core storage (aka RAM), a card reader-punch, a tape drive and a printer. A good programmer in those days was one who could squeeze every ounce of performance out of it, so working in Autocoder, we did things that would have stood people's hair on end today, like using instruction codes as constants and altering code on the fly. A tape might have, e.g., a customer file. If you wanted to find a particular customer, the drill was to load the tape-to-print program from a card deck, then run it with a sense switch that kept it from printing, until you figured (by eye) that the tape was somewhere near the one you wanted, then flip the switch and get a few lines of print, flip another switch to pause the program, and check the printout. If you had gone past the record you wanted, you would manually rewind the tape a bit, rinse and repeat. Edith would be a very simple program, probably just reading and printing a card deck, or if you got really sohphisticated, setting the image up in a table as a bit pattern, say 150 rows of 22 characters (132 bits), which would come to 3300 characters of data. The program wouldn't take up more than 100 characters or so. The baling-wire-and-canvas days of computing.
The DEC KL10 system at Catholic Univ in Washington DC in the mid 70s had several versions that had evolutions from printed copies to the PDP Terminals that were highly detailed using fractal created lines on the electronic display to simulate the curly hairs...
I had a large card deck once that printed something similar, but no bikini! The deck was SYSIN for IEBGENER and SYSOUT was the printer. The tagline at the bottom said “it’s been a business doing pleasure with you”.
In the late 1990s we undergrads took delight in printing out pictures of Concorde (lots of free scrap paper generated) and the Mona Lisa on an ICL 1904s mainframe - happy days 🙂
I'm 45 so very much remember dot matrix printers and these fun little programs that would print dirty pictures. I just showed my 2 year old girlfriend that advent of graphic printing its infancy. She was loving it! This, This is where it all started! Great video, love the punch cards.
As far as I remember there were at least two other versions of this, Susie and Michelle iirc. One was very explicit. In addition there were the ‘music decks’ where the printer was used without paper whilst an AM radio was placed on the printer cover and tuned to a non-used station frequency. The interference of the print train caused ‘music’ to be played on the radio. I believe one piece of music was either Anchors Away or a piece of Sousa.
What I want to come about would be a multi-Media 1401 simulator, a GUI based app on a suitable machine,like the Commodore Amiga. Some of features would be the true sounds, of, say, the combination card read, punch and print op codes, drag and drop response to the punch card chip bucket full light to empty it, manipulation of the sense switches, etc.
I wonder if they've found either of the 1401 "Music Loader" programs. One of them hammered the printer chain to generate musical notes; the other caused the 1401 CPU to generate electrical signals that could be picked up on an AM transistor radio as musical notes.
A better translation for the last one (the sign) would be more like "Whatever the goal of your desires was, the 1401 does not allow everything to be done with her/it"
Also, there is a small "joke" on the first sign: "Weitere Auskunft ... gibt Schalter B" -- The word "Schalter" in German is not only used for a switch but also for a counter in a bank or something. So the translation would be both "Further information about her qualities can be inquired by switch B" and "...can be inquired at counter B"
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.
This is all even more impressive when you consider the fact that the guy who first wrote that program all those years ago did it all with one hand.
4:29 this is probably the oldest function prank I’ve ever seen preformed on a machine. How funny it will be when future historians try to play this program only to fake it being ‘jammed’, opening up the lid and getting flashed. -1960s
>Present Day...
present time
😵
@@predawka and you don't seem to understand...
1:05 “For the good of academic research”
> room full of old wise men here to experience the good of academics for research purposes.
The author of Sophie was a better ASCII artist. :)
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 was a student operator on a 1401 in college. I had an opportunity to see Edith in all her glory so I looked at the cards and figured out which ones were needed to just print out the final version. Wrote a Autocoder command which would read the card images from RAMAC and immediately send it to the printer. Posted the “try this” to the bulletin board. Got me an invitation to the Professors office where I was reminded about the proper use of equipment and my job duties. Also was complemented on my initiative which should be pointed toward more business related goals. Guess I should have charged for using the command. Anyway this brought those memories all back. This were back when “PC” was not even a thing!
so, the first computerized waifu?
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.
9:45 Translation: "We're writing to let you know that we're updating our privacy policy in preparation for the EU's General Data Protection Regulations ("GDPR") which will go into effect on May 25th, 2018."
I've been enjoying the 8 bit guy, but this channel has significantly fewer bits!
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
“I don’t even see the code, all I see is blonde, brunette, redhead…”
So... is this a Matrix reference or just a coincidence?
WE WANT THE FULL SOPHIE!!!
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
Rule 34... NO EXCEPTIONS
I want IBM 401 pronz now
LOL, a meme of the preinternet era XD
it would be interesting to see it print a text present day meme... lol
The English version I remember started with something like, "This is Edith, an optional feature of the IBM 1401. For more information, please rerun with sense switch B on." The switch B version had the same initial text followed a brief blurb about the 1401 and the suggestion to run with sense switch C on for even more information. In the switch C version, the sign covered her boobs as well and was filled with the actual specs for the 1401!
Great info. We have not located an "original" English version yet.
neofetch for the 1401 seemed classy
Never try "switch d" , trust me!
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
As a lady I have to say I don't find this offensive... it would be kinda like thinking the erotic art found at Pompeii is offensive. (and that is much higher resolution!) XD I mean, it's not exactly a shock that guys in the 60s used computers for stuff like this. It's human nature, right? And there were presumably very few women around so what would stop them? You know, as a girl, I bought my first web hosting in 2001 because I wanted to post my questionable fangirl artwork and fiction someplace, and all the existing free hosts had rules about that stuff (also GeoCities or whoever would put ad banners on your site). We ladies do it too. If anything it's just sad that we had no representation back then... I'm glad times have changed and now any person can find something to look at on the internet. :)
@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.
Technology may be ever-changing, but those who make it never change :D
I know Edith and other girls from my FORTRAN semester (was about 1976).
But there was also a remarkable print of a steam locomotive, the BIG BOY; about 5 feet long.
Depending upon our professor was at vacation or on mission, we swapped above prints.
hey, I know something like the second one from modern UNIX
10/10 would've enjoyed that if i lived back then. Coming from a 19 year old girl. :'D
Lovely, I know Edith here in German, when my Dad runs the Office they Used Edith ti communicate with other Offices just for fun in their free time. They had many punch cards with different versions of Edith on the early Computer days. He told me. Cheers Form showing. Bye bye Toni
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
Female and loving this silly culture lesson!
Vintage computing is very interesting, even back in the 50's you had joke programs.
There were any number of programs like that for almost (probably all) computers with a printer in those days. When I was in college I ran off a copy of Sophie and gave it to a friend to sneak into the chemistry amphitheater just before the final exam and tape it to the front of the lecturer's podium. It stayed there for the next three hours, and probably longer. I have no idea what effect it had on overall class scores for that year. I was the only chemistry/math/physics major in the school that also knew where the computer lab was on campus, which should give you some idea of just how long ago that was.
Among the many capacities of SAGE, a massive 1950s air defense computer network (1st of its kind, many, many firsts) was to display a naked lady on the radar scope. Built largely by IBM, it was the fastest vacuum-tube computer ever built. Each unit the size of a football field and was actually two complete redundant computers, local and remote failures were thus defended against.
Classic switch at the end, who said Germans don't have a sense of humor.. Big waste of manpower, but totally worth it.
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)
These programs were quite widely written - I used to work on an IBM 1460, with ran three 1403 printers - at Xmas we wrote a program that printed Santa on his sleigh with the three printers working in parallel, playing Jingle Bells as they printed - by using one part, two part and four part listing on each of the three printers we got a good tonal range to the music. IT was so very simple back in 1969.
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.
do you realize what you are seeing?
2d women... before anime had reached america
these women are precious relics of a time before the weeaboo taint
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.
I interned in a computer center that had a 370. They definately had nekkid wimmen printout programs!
Cool keyboard
"I'm going to need this printed ... for research purposes ..."
Glad that they were able to find the program and recreate it. I wonder who the original programmer(s) were and how much time must have been spent to essentially have three different variations.
I think that Oregon professor will benefit from research done with both the Sophie and Edith programs.
I loved those old machines. I started as s field service engineer for digital equipment corp in 1970. I used to work on this equipment (except the cpu). The sounds of a vintage computer room are great. The only thing not on this video are the smells of the vintage computer room.
In late 1964 and early 1965 I was at a research facilty in California which had an IBM 704 and an IBM 1401. There was a similar situation. Instead of a program there was a deck of data cards that when printed on the 1401's line printer a young lady would appear. So it wasn't a program but it was data; about two feet in the deck of cards. However this deck was not kept in a file cabinet. Off in a corner one had to lift up a floor tile to reveal the hiding place. The facility had a double floor typical for cooling computers in those days.
I cannot imagine the time it took to get this program right.
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
I prefer Sophie.
Actually that Germany says, "Whatever the goal of your wishes was, the 1401 doesn't let you do everything with it"
EDITH ran just fine on a 1410 running in 1401 mode. There was also a "Jingle Bells" program for the 1401 - it used the 1403 (600 LPM version) .
Very entertaining! The 1401 is a little before my time. I began working at IBM in Sweden in 1974 as a Customer Engineer and there were still a lot of 1403 printers at our customers. The last printer I was trained to fix was the big 3800 laser printer. What a beast that was! :)
/Anders
Man, that brings back memories of high school. Spent hours learning machine language, auto order assembly, programming the ibm 024 and 029 keypunch drum, I’ve 129 “electronic” keypunch machine, creating 1403 printer “programming” ribbon, etc. what great fun to go back to the 1970s and my youth :)
Ah, computer technology has redeemed itself at last!
This machine amazes me. I wish I was nearby it. Would love to volunteer my time to learn how it completely works, even if it includes just cleaning or dusting it.
I may also get a copy of SOPHIE solely for academic purposes, and 'accidentally' bump the B switch.
That reminded me of an open house I went to at a NOAA facility in Seattle when I was a teenager (probably in the late 1970's). They had a large flatbed plotter they were proud off. It's vacuum table was maybe 5 by 10 feet (plus or minus a couple of feet).
As I remember it (but my memory is admittedly a bit shaky), they started to run a demo plot on the plotter but shut it off after a few lines had been drawn. They changed to and ran a different program. After the demo, I asked the demonstrator why they changed programs and he showed me a previous complete plot of the program they started to run. And, you guessed it, it was a pin-up girl much like the ones you printed -- except with better resolution and in a reclining pose. Amazingly, I can't remember if she had cloths on or not. You'd think a teenage boy would remember if she didn't, so she probably did.
*People in 1959:* We have one of the most powerful and advanced computers of our time at our disposal
*also people in 1959:* let it print out some boobs
I'm a german engineering student and all I can say is great computer, nice video and Your pronunciation is quite good!
Your German pronounciation is really good! Many English people can't pronounce the "ä" or "ö" etc correctly. Respect 👍
“For the good of academic research“. I now suspect that you faked the email 😂
+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
If your flesh is orange colored like that, maybe go see a doctor? ;)
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
In 1971/72, I ran an IBM 360 at U of Houston. We had a card deck that played Christmas music by making things vibrate, mostly the line printer.
Humanity used to scratch boobies on rock formations, now we have computers
"We need a name for our sexy ebcdic art program?" "How about Edith?" I guess Gladys and Gertrude were taken?
What happens if you turn switch D on? 🙋
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.
At tech school there were printouts of the Mona Lisa and Alfred E. Neuman that used double-printed characters. I took them down and made line-by-line copies of them. I still have the punch cards and a computer tape version.
7:14 He wears a belt AND suspenders? Number safe!
Grown men having too much fun with technology(!) My German grandfather would have liked the Edith program. Nice job. Edith ist wunderschön.
I never saw this coming; I guess people never change! You should have Sophie in all her appearances scanned and converted to plain-text ascii format-you know, for posterity!
Amazing! I had a whole 30-year career working on big IBM machines (and then retired) and never worked on equipment this old!
Very early digital photography. I also remember seeing early examples of using a line printer to produce a graphic or (photographic) image. Another trick done with line printers was to make them play music by printing specific patterns of characters.
I'd love to volunteer there and work my way through all those decks of cards, cataloguing them, backing them up.....
How to print hentai in the 1960s
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.
While in college I was a student operator on a 1401. We ran Edith and had a version that I remember was not as prudish. I created an autocoder subroutine that would go and read the card images from the disk that would immediately print out in the final Edith glory. Wow, I really appreciate the work you are doing.
I've lived near the Computer History Museum my whole life (59) and have never been inside there. Lagging supreme. The building was once the headquarters of Silicon Graphics before they built their new site, which eventually became Google's home base.
This brings back memories from 1967. My first machine was an English Electric KDF9, which noisily inhabited a room in the University of Sydney Physics building. We learnt a teaching subset of Algol. The "we" being a small group of first year physics students who volunteered to participate in a "not for credit" course "to see if physics students could learn to program". Turn around time during weekdays was 36 hours. The source code was on punched cards (we had to do any corrections on a hand punch!) by magical means a paper tape containing the binary code was produced for later execution. Any printed output appeared on a teletype, fed by paper tape. Later, I had a "long vacation" student employment and had to learn FORTRAN to do some geophysical calculations. Run times were very long on the local IBM, but virtually instantaneous on a Control Data timeshare machine once the program was debugged. Although I was a Physics and maths major, I ended up working in IT for the whole of my working life, but at that time I had no idea of the implications of my holiday job on my future career.
I love the stripes at the edge of the punch cards... experienced people :-)
I am surprised you speak German, Marc. From your accent I guess you're a French guy living in the US? Greetings from good old Europe! (Germany here)
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! :)
Gosh this video brings back some old memories when I worked on an old IBM 360 /30 computer room... 1403 printer... 029 keypunch... the card reader... old tape drives.... 5081 punch cards! Dang... can I come work for you guys?
There went most of my hearing while working in the computer room. That line printer really makes a lot of noise.
I remember we were printing these things on an IBM 1403 and an IBM 3211 impact printer.
Legitimately needed the sauce for science!
Interesting... While I hadn't heard about Edith specifically, while I was a student, there were plenty of line printer art images.. Somewhere I have card decks and tapes with the various datasets. (some used classic over-printing for better resolution). One of the nicest I recall was an image of the moon. These later images were just data printed by a small header program and a wee bit of JCL.
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
I see this video now years laters (2024) and I worked with several computers mainframes in the past, e.g. in The Netherlands with the P1200 (or P1175), Bull DPS 7(000), Siemens 4004, and some more. IBM too, but only as a programmer.
But the printeed ladies.... well, we had those everywhere! And one of a steam locomotive, really beautiful. Prints also had som doubleprinted characters, as in this days it was easy to let a printer do that.
Back in the 70's , when people actually had to compete for computer time to do their work, someone I know of asked for a given slot and was denied the slot. The scheduler was told: "If you don't give me the time I'll run the THUNDERBIRD program." The scheduler refused, and so soon the computer was set up to run THUNDERBIRD. This program was in essence a computer virus, which made the computer tape drives activation lights whirl in sequence like the turn signal on late 60's cars like a Thunderbird or Cougar, and would make the printers jam print the word THUNDERBIRD in big letters, then tractor shoot up 6 pages and repeat, with 3 printers running in sequence, paper flying everywhere, and the computer would continue to run like this unless/ until stopped by the correct typed in command. The guy got his computer time as requested.
Hello, compared to the IBM 1401, I am still very young when I am 20 years old, but I am always interested in computer technology, no matter how old or new it is. It's great fun watching them do their jobs. As a German I always find it funny to find something in German somewhere else. And remember, the IBM 1401 doesn't do everything with itself ;-)
'Hidden Figures' take a whole new meaning.
I remember "Fifi" on a TTY punch tape!
I don't remember whether I saw Edith or Sophie back in the day but I'm sure I probably did see something similar coming off a 1403 printer. I remember printouts showing Snoopy were common being printed by a 1403 connected to an IBM 360. At a local university they had some basic wooden chairs to sit on when using an 029 keypunch machine. It was the perfect height. I could type faster on the keypunch than I could on a typewriter of the day. I still have printouts that came from a 1403. I also still have a manual and a control drum for an 029 along with a couple of decks of cards with a couple of programs on them that I was running back in the early 80s.
I want that file for recreating those cards, will you ever publish it?
First computer I worked on was a 1440, the baby version of a 1401 with 4000 6-bit characters of core storage (aka RAM), a card reader-punch, a tape drive and a printer. A good programmer in those days was one who could squeeze every ounce of performance out of it, so working in Autocoder, we did things that would have stood people's hair on end today, like using instruction codes as constants and altering code on the fly. A tape might have, e.g., a customer file. If you wanted to find a particular customer, the drill was to load the tape-to-print program from a card deck, then run it with a sense switch that kept it from printing, until you figured (by eye) that the tape was somewhere near the one you wanted, then flip the switch and get a few lines of print, flip another switch to pause the program, and check the printout. If you had gone past the record you wanted, you would manually rewind the tape a bit, rinse and repeat. Edith would be a very simple program, probably just reading and printing a card deck, or if you got really sohphisticated, setting the image up in a table as a bit pattern, say 150 rows of 22 characters (132 bits), which would come to 3300 characters of data. The program wouldn't take up more than 100 characters or so. The baling-wire-and-canvas days of computing.
Play it again Sam
The DEC KL10 system at Catholic Univ in Washington DC in the mid 70s had several versions that had evolutions from printed copies to the PDP Terminals that were highly detailed using fractal created lines on the electronic display to simulate the curly hairs...
at 4:38 gotta love the CuriousMarc goes oops. I rekon the printer was having fun though, LOL
I was there a couple months before this was uploaded without even knowing that happened!
It's funny to know that even back in the 50s some computer users were horny.
I had a large card deck once that printed something similar, but no bikini! The deck was SYSIN for IEBGENER and SYSOUT was the printer. The tagline at the bottom said “it’s been a business doing pleasure with you”.
In the late 1990s we undergrads took delight in printing out pictures of Concorde (lots of free scrap paper generated) and the Mona Lisa on an ICL 1904s mainframe - happy days 🙂
Old Guys Rule. 80 column cards and green bar. The NC1 was always the workhorse. Looks like you are keeping it all going. thanks
I'm 45 so very much remember dot matrix printers and these fun little programs that would print dirty pictures. I just showed my 2 year old girlfriend that advent of graphic printing its infancy. She was loving it! This, This is where it all started! Great video, love the punch cards.
Todays academic research only has more pixels instead of text "pixels". pretty much nothing changed
RIP living computer museum. All those machines are now up for auction. I hope those shelves of punch cards were actually preserved for emulator use.
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As far as I remember there were at least two other versions of this, Susie and Michelle iirc. One was very explicit. In addition there were the ‘music decks’ where the printer was used without paper whilst an AM radio was placed on the printer cover and tuned to a non-used station frequency. The interference of the print train caused ‘music’ to be played on the radio. I believe one piece of music was either Anchors Away or a piece of Sousa.
All we had at Oregon State were 'sign-carrying Snoopy' wall calendars 😢
What I want to come about would be a multi-Media 1401 simulator, a GUI based app on a suitable machine,like the Commodore Amiga. Some of features would be the true sounds, of, say, the combination card read, punch and print op codes, drag and drop response to the punch card chip bucket full light to empty it, manipulation of the sense switches, etc.
I wonder if they've found either of the 1401 "Music Loader" programs. One of them hammered the printer chain to generate musical notes; the other caused the 1401 CPU to generate electrical signals that could be picked up on an AM transistor radio as musical notes.
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.
That was fun, and that 1401 is definitely an AWESOME computer. ... thanks for sharing, CuriousMarc and Computer History Museum friends. :-)
I love your little "boobs!" followed by CENSORED. :D Such good comedic timing!
A pioneer in your field as always!
We had similar programs for the IBM System 360 at Kansas State University.
I am an old relic too, 71 now. I remember when the term software referred to the women as much as the programs.
Oh, that is cheeky, lol. It is so funny to see this in action; thank you.