10 Apr
2015
10 Apr
'15
7:46 p.m.
On 04/10/2015 02:04 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
The paternal side of my family is from the southern
Minnesota area and my
dad has told me on more than one occasion that my grandmother for a time
had a job working for Control Data "sewing" core memory by hand... This
would probably have been some time in the 1960s... Obviously I can't verify
the veracity of this firsthand :O but it's been said at least of that stuff
was assembled by hand by human beings, in the US...
Probably true. Most of the systems manufacturers eventually took labor
at least out of the country. There was talk at CDC back in the day of
the "Tijuana core house", but that may have been for the bulk core (ECS)
used back then.
--Chuck