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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)
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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!)
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To: _Jim

What about the “bubble generation”?

It didn’t last that long I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEub5U9UeX8


32 posted on 04/11/2020 4:17:28 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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