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From: jwatts@hpihoah.HP.COM (Jon Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory and the Shuttle
Message-ID: <4620003@hpihoah.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Jul 88 00:20:53 GMT
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mec@ardent.UUCP (Michael Chastain) writes:
>I've read that NASA successfully recovered the Challenger core
>memories.  Talk about a violent "core dump"!

This is quite likely true when I was working on core memories for the F-16 we
recovered data from several memories that spent two weeks in salt water in the
North Sea.  The cores don't care only the drive electronics have trouble with
it.
 
>sometime in 1987.  Ampex makes core memories for, among other things,
>shuttles.

I may be mistaken but I believe Ampex only makes the cores themselves for the
shuttle and not the complete memory assembly.

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