Core Memory

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Nov 5 13:49:52 1997

<Seeing how it's advertised as a 16 Meg module, it probably isn't
<a particularly pretty example of core. In my opinion, the older
<core styles - where the individual beads and wires are actually

I'd be surprized, as that is huge for a core system. It's far to big for
one plane. My guess is it's a 16k. Way back however EMC did corestore
systems of disk sizes for rapid store/recall to replace things like swapping
drums and rotating media systems.

It would be fun to get something like that and have it working!

Allison
Received on Wed Nov 05 1997 - 13:49:52 GMT

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