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From: tuba@ur-tut.UUCP (Jon Krueger)
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Subject: Re: PDP-8 (it lives!)
Message-ID: <103@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 12:57:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 26 12:57:10 1986
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In article <465@fritz.UUCP> zemon@fritz.UUCP (Art zemon) writes:
>The PDP-8 has a box roughly ten inches cubicle which contains
>four kilowords of core.  Now this is not four kilobytes nor is
>it eight nor is "core" a euphemism.  The 8 has 4096 twelve bit
>words of real magnetic doughnuts with wires strung through them.
>This stuff, if my memory serves, cycles at the blinding speed of
>1.5 milliseconds.

It cycles at 1.5 microseconds.  Let's not exaggerate.