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From: markb@sm.unisys.com.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory
Message-ID: <5415@sdcrdcf.sm.unisys.com.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 88 20:12:14 GMT
References: <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Reply-To: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
Organization: Unisys - System Development Group, Santa Monica
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In article <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> shoat@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Dave Shoat) writes:
>... I was quite amazed at the small size of the magnets - I had to
>put the board under a microscope to see any detail at all. 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.

Unfortunately a large majority of core memory was hand-made by teenage
girls working in sweat-shops for less then a $1/hr in several oriential
countries like Korea.  This cost less then making core plains by machine.

Mark Biggar
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