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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Magnetic Wire Recorders
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.041123.17383@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul14.044030.6001@swbatl.sbc.com> <825@bilver.UUCP> <1990Jul25.184953.7175@tc.fluke.COM> <1990Jul25.203604.1577@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 90 04:11:23 GMT

In article <1990Jul25.203604.1577@tc.fluke.COM> witters@tc.fluke.COM (John Witters) writes:
>>Is my memory playing tricks with me or do I recall correctly that wire
>>recorders have been used in satellites? ...
>
>The technology is called plated wire.  I think it is used for computer memory
>in a way analogous to old fashioned ferrite core memory...

It's fairly similar to core memory, using coatings plated on a wire matrix
rather than little ferrite doughnuts strung on the matrix.  It has nothing
to do with wire recorders; the wire in plated-wire memory does not move.
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