Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory
Summary: Aren't core memories rad-hard too?
Message-ID: <758@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 88 14:49:39 GMT
References: <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1010@garth.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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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.

Don't ferrite cores have the additional capability of being
rad-hard?  It seems to me that this would be a good thing for
space shots...

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