cctalk Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

[Eric Smith]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> What kind of cores does it use?
>

Pretty ordinary core memory. Being an early system, the cores were rather
large, so high currents were needed for read and write. There was forced
air temperature control, vs. oil immersion used in the contemporary IBM
7302 core storage unit (later replaced by air-cooled 7302A).