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From: mec@ardent.UUCP (Michael Chastain)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory
Summary: Challenger cores survived explosion
Message-ID: <427@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 88 03:30:58 GMT
References: <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1010@garth.UUCP> <758@vsi.UUCP>
Organization: Ardent Computer
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I've read that NASA successfully recovered the Challenger core
memories.  Talk about a violent "core dump"!

Source: an Ampex employee newsletter (the Ampex Amplifier, I think),
sometime in 1987.  Ampex makes core memories for, among other things,
shuttles.

Michael Chastain
mec@ardent.com
hplabs!ardent!mec
"He who dies with the most FRIENDS wins."