Up for Auction: Memory from the First Computer in Space

[Geoffrey Oltmans]

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-computer-space?et_cid=4906629&et_rid=742193094&location=top
>
> 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
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>