page_title: IBM 1440
section_title: System configuration
hierarchical_section_title: IBM 1440 / System configuration
caption_attribution_description: English: IBM 1442 Card Reader/Punch I. This photo was taken by Mike Ross of corestore.org. He has given permission via email Español: Perforadora/lectora de tarjetas IBM
context_page_description: The IBM 1440 computer was announced by IBM October 11, 1962. This member of the IBM 1400 series was described many years later as "essentially a lower-cost version of the 1401," and programs for the 1440 could easily be adapted to run on the IBM 1401.
  Despite what IBM described as "special features ... to meet immediate data processing requirements and ... to absorb increased demands," the 1440 didn't quite attain the same commercial success as the 1401, and it was withdrawn on February 8, 1971.
  Author Emerson Pugh wrote that the 1440 "did poorly in the marketplace because it was initially offered without the ability to attach magnetic tape units as well.".
context_section_description: The IBM 1441 processing unit (CPU) contained arithmetic and logic circuits and up to 16,000 alphanumeric storage positions.
  The console was either a Model 1 or, when an electric typewriter was added, a Model 2, of the IBM 1447 operator's console.
caption: IBM 1442
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