ebay: Antique UNICAC computer memory planes

From: cswiger <cswiger_at_wilma.widomaker.com>
Date: Fri Nov 20 08:35:55 1998

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Bill Yakowenko wrote:

> ] The amazing lace and tiny rings are long gone now. But the
> ] legacy still lives on in the word "stack" and "core memory".

Of course the coolest thing about 'core' is it's the original
non-volitile memory; you could carry one around with a diag
utility already loaded, just plug it in and run.

One of the myth's they always told us was they all had to be
made by hand - there wasn't a machine that could thread the
row/column and sense wires for mass production. Is there any
rumor to this truth?

        Chuck
        cswiger_at_widomaker.com
Received on Fri Nov 20 1998 - 08:35:55 GMT