To: aimhigh
re: “Today’s computers rely on ferromagnets (the same kind that stick to your refrigerator) to align the binary 1s and 0s that process and store information. “
Core (magnetic) memory, so, 1950’s ....
8 posted on
04/11/2020 1:09:40 PM PDT by
_Jim
(Save babies)
To: _Jim
i bought one of these about 20 years ago from a colleague who had acquired a bunch of 'em and was selling them for fifty bucks each (a very cool piece of history):

31 posted on
04/11/2020 3:45:12 PM PDT by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: _Jim
32 posted on
04/11/2020 4:17:28 PM PDT by
wally_bert
(Transmission tone, Selma.)
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