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From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory
Message-ID: <1199@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 88 19:52:45 GMT
References: <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. (TDS - Montreal) St. Laurent QC, Canada
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In article <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> shoat@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Dave Shoat) writes:
>.... Does anyone know how core memory was manufactured?
>Was it knitted? By hand or by machine? I'd be interested to know.
>

There may have been a machine process for manufacturing of core memory
boards, but I am not aware of it.  I *do* know that much core memory was
manufactured by hand by female labour in tradition *lace making* areas, e.g.
Portugal.  The dexterity required to thread the control and sense wires
through the core donuts is, seemingly, very similar to that in lacemaking.
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