Who wants to help read a Saturn V core stack?

Ouch!. I don't have much experience of reading core, but I've worked on core memory systems (I guess many others here have too). Rememebr that reading core is destructive. Basically, the read operation is to write a 0 to each core and see if there was a change in magnetic flux in that core. If there was, it _was_ a 1. If not, it was (and still is) a 0. Normally you then write the 1 back if appropriate. So the first problem is that if anything goes wrong, if the snese amplifier doesn't work, or whatever, then you lose the contects of the core stack. You don't get a second change. The second problem is that from what I've read on core memory, the waveforms applied to the X and Y address wires are critical. Not just in amplitude, but also in things like rise time. Get the former wrong (at least) and you might corrupt cores other than the one you're trying to read. How much data on the origianl core controller still exists? Any scheamtics? Any comments on wht had to be tweaked for each core stack? And hardware still around (particularly the controller for _this_ stack)? And if unsuccessful there will be no examples left :-( -tony