27 Oct
2017
27 Oct
'17
7:46 p.m.
On 10/27/2017 04:55 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
Or Burroughs' core counters (think I still have
some somewhere):
https://www.google.com/patents/US3438014
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2995663.html
We forget about all of the alternative ways of implementing digital
logic. At one time, magnetic core logic was viewed as being much more
reliable than either tube or transistor logic, although not as fast.
Probably better hardened to radiation, as well.
In some respects, core logic reminds me somewhat of the McCulloch-Pitts
TLU model described in Minsky's book on Computation:
http://www.i-programmer.info/babbages-bag/325-mcculloch-pitts-neural-networ…
--Chuck