Mandelbrot set on a 1401
March 23rd, 2015 | Published in Uncategorized
Mature mainframe madness prints Mandelbrot fractal in TWELVE MINUTES
The article calls the output device a “dot matrix printer”, but it looks more like output from a 1403 impact printer, which as you can tell from the number was designed to work with IBM’s 1401 processor. The 1403 was adapted to work with System/360 computers, and we still had one in use through the mid 1990’s.