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From: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory
Summary: By hand
Message-ID: <480@ns.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 88 21:18:50 GMT
References: <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Organization: Network Systems Corp. Mpls MN
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In article <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, shoat@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Dave Shoat) writes:
> Does anyone know hoe core memory was manufactured?
> Was it knitted? By hand or by machine? I'd be interested to know.
  The stringing of the cores onto the wires was done by hand.  DEC had
photos of people performing this operation in various material I saw
during the time core memory was the current technology.  It was generally
done under a binocular microscope, to give the people some sort of 
fighting chance of getting it right.


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