(I just mentioned this in the thread about Burroughs part numbers, but
am putting it forth in a separate question in case it gets missed by
some readers.)
I have a core memory module from some Burroughs machine. It is a large
plug-in PCB about 16 inches square containing address & inhibit drivers
& such. Mounted to this is a near-same-size daughter-board containing
the sense amplifiers and the folded planar array of cores underneath a
metal shield.
It is organised as 32 KWords, 20 bits wide.
Any suggestions as to what machine this may have come from?
The 20 bits is the raw-memory-word width, one could speculate that some
of those bits were used for ECC and the machine-word-width is smaller,
although I'm not sure off the top of my head whether 4 bits is enough
for ECC on 16 bits (isn't it >log2(n) for 1-bit ECC on n bits?)