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From: bms@bdt.UUCP (Chris Rhodin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory and the Shuttle
Message-ID: <357@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 07:01:10 GMT
References: <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <4620003@hpihoah.HP.COM>
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Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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Well all this talk about core memories got me thinking.  I have
an old Ampex 16k byte Multibus Core memory card ( circa 1975 ) .
    This was bought from a surplus dealer and was used in my first
"computer" which had an Intel 80/10 cpu card.  I was the envy of 
all my friends, imagine I did not have to use the teletype or 
paper tape anymore.
    I took the box out of the closet yesterday, dusted it off, 
turned it on,  low and behold it still had the the same code in
it that I wrote back in 1978!  Ten years, seven moves, and no
power. I can see why Nasa likes core.

Vance at Berkeley Microsystems.