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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory
Message-ID: <1010@garth.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 88 21:23:36 GMT
References: <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
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In article <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> shoat@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Dave Shoat) writes:
>                                                           The whole thing
>was very intricately made. Does anyone know hoe core memory was manufactured?
>Was it knitted? By hand or by machine? I'd be interested to know.

I was told the cores are lined up in a powerful magnetic field and the wires
are shot through. Then another field is applied and wires from another
direction.

Are manufactured. Last I heard, the Shuttle memories are cores. A core memory
can retain its information for hours, weeks, or years without any power.