On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Brent Hilpert wrote:
  Mentioned in the B5000 article was thin-film memory.
 Idle curiousity: are there any examples of thin-film memory, or that other
 60's memory alternative - plated-wire memory, still existant? Perhaps in
 machines at CHM? How about functioning examples? 
    There have been two examples of plated-wire on Ebay, within the last
two weeks:
220688106698
300483691293
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