28 Oct
2015
28 Oct
'15
4:32 p.m.
Not a proof in entirety of the claim, but from a ref and looking at the closeup pics from
the auction website, it is an unusual form of core memory where the cores have two holes
through them, like a blocky figure 8, apparently an aspect of a technique to achieve
non-destructive readout. This is quite unusual and would go some ways to showing a
provenance to the Gemini project.
On 2015-Oct-28, at 2:45 PM, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
Seems like it's worth is totally dependent on its
provenance...how do you
prove that?
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:58 PM, feldman.r at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>> A core memory unit from Gemini 3 is up for auction:
>
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/10/auction-memory-first-comput…
>
> Comical. "Chip" indeed. And "first use of core memory ... in an era
of
> rotating drum memory" -- in 1965? I wonder why they have such a clueless
> person write their blurbs.
>
> paul