plated wire memory

[Diane Bruce]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 07:43:34AM -0700, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> search for NDRO and thin film memory
> Univac used it in their commercial and military computers
> 
> On 10/20/19 7:35 AM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> > I was just listening to a video on the Voyager space craft. It used an interesting type of memory, called magnetic wire memory. There is only a little bit of information of it on the web. It is clever in that has a non-destructive read. I just wondered if any one else was familiar with this type of memory.
> > Dwight
> > 

Nice article here:
http://www.technikum29.de/en/devices/plated-wire-storage

Never saw it myself only saw core. I don't think DEC ever used plated wire.
> > 

- Diane
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