On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Bill Yakowenko wrote:
> Beware; in the past this guy has offerred "core memory planes" for
> sale several times, even on this list. But if you had read the
> fine print you would have found that there were no cores - just
> the rectangular PC-board "frame" in which the cores used to reside.
> I suppose you could call that a plane, but it isn't what most
> compu-geeks would think when hearing the word in that context.
Are you sure, Bill? The pics on his website look like real core planes
to me:
http://www.netw.com/~drfcline/screen8.jpg
> As far as I'm concerned, this guy is a rip-off artist. If he
> was simply selling Univac memory controller boards, I'd be more
> than half interested. And oddly enough, as near as I can tell,
> these controller boards actually *do* have some core bits left
> on them. (Are "windings" the same as cores, or is this another
> aspect of his marketing ingenuity?) So in that sense they may
> be more interesting than his former offerings.
I don't think those windings on the controller board are cores:
http://www.netw.com/~drfcline/cc1.jpg
If he's calling those things cores, he might be confused (or I might be
very confused, I suppose).
-- Doug
Received on Thu Nov 19 1998 - 22:14:14 GMT
