20 Nov
1998
20 Nov
'98
12:35 a.m.
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Bill Yakowenko wrote:
] The amazing lace and tiny rings are long gone now.
But the
] legacy still lives on in the word "stack" and "core memory".
Of course the coolest thing about 'core' is it's the original
non-volitile memory; you could carry one around with a diag
utility already loaded, just plug it in and run.
One of the myth's they always told us was they all had to be
made by hand - there wasn't a machine that could thread the
row/column and sense wires for mass production. Is there any
rumor to this truth?
Chuck
cswiger(a)widomaker.com