19 Nov
1998
19 Nov
'98
2:14 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Bill Yakowenko wrote:
Beware; in the past this guy has offerred "core
memory planes" for
sale several times, even on this list. But if you had read the
fine print you would have found that there were no cores - just
the rectangular PC-board "frame" in which the cores used to reside.
I suppose you could call that a plane, but it isn't what most
compu-geeks would think when hearing the word in that context.
Are you sure, Bill? The pics on his website look like real core planes
to me:
http://www.netw.com/~drfcline/screen8.jpg
As far as I'm concerned, this guy is a rip-off
artist. If he
was simply selling Univac memory controller boards, I'd be more
than half interested. And oddly enough, as near as I can tell,
these controller boards actually *do* have some core bits left
on them. (Are "windings" the same as cores, or is this another
aspect of his marketing ingenuity?) So in that sense they may
be more interesting than his former offerings.
I don't think those windings on the controller board are cores:
http://www.netw.com/~drfcline/cc1.jpg
If he's calling those things cores, he might be confused (or I might be
very confused, I suppose).
-- Doug
