On Dec 15, 10:34, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> I've never seen core in real life...... how small are the wires?
Depends on the core, but thinner than hair, usually. There's a picture of
an H214 core board on EBay at the moment; you'll see 12 large and 8 small
dark rectangles on it.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1309747460
The larger rectangles measure approximately 5/8" x 2 1/4". Those
rectangles are the core mat; it's an 8K x 16 bit core mat. Each of those
131072 ferrite cores has three wires going through it.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Sat Dec 15 2001 - 11:18:44 GMT