29 Oct
2008
29 Oct
'08
12:28 p.m.
Mike Loewen wrote:
I received this request for information on a core memory stack - does
anyone recognize it?
Is there any info on country of origin? That might narrow it down a lot...
I think it probably is late '50s, as core seemed to get a lot more compact in
the '60s, and a single stack of 40k capacity would have probably been unusual
on earlier '50s systems.
Problem is, it looks like a lot of stacks that I've seen on machines around
that time - same materials, same white lettering etc.; as we know the capacity
then perhaps knowing which country's system it was would be enough (I'm not
sure if it's possible to guess at machine word length purely from the core
organisation?)
cheers
Jules