plated wire memory

[Dave Wade]

I don't know much about plated wire store, but I do know it was used in the
Manchester University MU5 computer which pioneered heuristic pipelining.
There is some info here:-

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/cgi/rni/comp-arch.pl?Ibuff/mu5-ibu.html,Ibuff/
mu5-ibu-f.html,Ibuff/menu-mu5.html

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YD5dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=%22mu5%
22+plated+wire+store&source=bl&ots=4vqufyFe81&sig=ACfU3U07-MqiT-58mc16Yjs7C1
eFm_m4UA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVhdb5kavlAhW5TxUIHbJ9Cz4Q6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=on
epage&q=%22mu5%22%20plated%20wire%20store&f=true

Dave

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> Subject: plated wire memory
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> I was just listening to a video on the Voyager space craft. It used an
interesting
> type of memory, called magnetic wire memory. There is only a little bit of
> information of it on the web. It is clever in that has a non-destructive
read. I
> just wondered if any one else was familiar with this type of memory.
> Dwight
>