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From: john@anasazi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space,net.arch,net.aviation
Subject: Re: Computer Technology in USSR - circa 1955 to 1970
Message-ID: <649@anasazi.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 10:25:54 EST
Article-I.D.: anasazi.649
Posted: Sat Mar 15 10:25:54 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Mar-86 04:47:56 EST
References: <2940@gatech.CSNET> <6479@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore)
Organization: Anasazi, Phoenix Az.
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Keywords: airborne computers read-only memory ferrite transistors
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In article <6479@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> ...the use of core memories
>> as ROM where "little old ladies" wired the application program bits into
>> the ROMs. The use of core memory as ROM is something I am not aware of.
>> Is anyone out there aware of such a use of core memory.
The microdata 1600 was often shipped to the customer with the program
stored in core. While it really was writable, it was functionally
a "core ROM" in that nobody ever wrote it more than once.
-- 
John Moore (NJ7E/XE1HDO)
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