[GTALUG] CRT memories [was Re: IBM - cache skirmish story.]

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Wed Apr 25 08:38:16 EDT 2018


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=sharing


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