On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM Wayne S via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I never found out what the mallet was used for.
I heard people joke back in the day that CEs carried a rubber mallet
for remediating core memory problems.
No idea whether percussive maintenance to jostle the cores was
actually a thing or not.