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Originally Posted by kinetic
Hehhehe ...yes Rob , 66 Mhz, that was funny 
I have seen those core rope memory cards years ago, probably
25-30 years ago when I pulled apart an old punch card reader
from my brother's work as a teenager.
I remember being fascinated that a little ceramic bead would hold
a bit of memory 
Steve |
Yes. The first big chemistry analyser I ever worked on (Technicon SMAC) had a 60s computer - hand wound ferrite cores for the memory! Now that's a computer!