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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory
Message-ID: <458@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 18 Jul 88 19:27:54 GMT
References: <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1010@garth.UUCP>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <1010@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
>
>... Last I heard, the Shuttle memories are cores. A core memory
>can retain its information for hours, weeks, or years without any power.

You are kidding, aren't you?  core is the lowest-density recording
medium since paper tape.  The shuttle would use bubbles for nonvolatile,
read-write memory, I would hope.  Even EEROM, which must be in the
system somewhere...  Not even NASA would be 15 years behind on
technology... ;-)

				--Blair