30 Jul
2012
30 Jul
'12
6:36 p.m.
On 30 Jul 2012 at 18:00, Christian Kennedy wrote:
Well, broomstick plus magnet, right? Gotta be able to
pick up the
blown-apart cores. Those were the days, when computing carried the
risk of delightfully catastrophic failures :)
Yup, you got it. Couldn't believe the first time I saw the IBM CE
banging on the side of the 7090 core box then fishing around in the
oil for bits.... (that's when bits were *really* bits).
--Chuck