25 Apr
2018
25 Apr
'18
5:38 a.m.
On 04/24/2018 11:00 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
I got into computers when core memory was on its way out so I never got to see any systems built using this kind of technology.
My first computer, which I bought in 1975 had static RAM in memory chips, but a couple of years later, when I started working on computers at work, they were all core memory. I still have a core memory plane from one of those systems. Here's a photo of that core plane: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F0K1vDzT0HjrBDKySpQ8m91TPw2UDCsS/view?usp=s...