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To: DaveTesla
Ferrite cores?

Indeed. :-)

Our IBM 360/75J mainframes used ferrite core memory as well.

(I'm getting old. Sigh.)

64 posted on 12/07/2004 4:36:33 AM PST by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer
No your not.

ROTFLMAO
65 posted on 12/07/2004 4:38:25 AM PST by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: RadioAstronomer; DaveTesla
Ferrite cores? Indeed. :-) Our IBM 360/75J mainframes used ferrite core memory as well. (I'm getting old. Sigh.)

Double sigh- I have a Seeburg "Regency" jukebox in the shop- it uses a ferrite core memory to recall record locations ( the old ones used a mechanical "memory" ) and it was near state-of-the-art... in 1974.

78 posted on 12/07/2004 4:54:22 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: RadioAstronomer

I must be older.....while a grad student , i wrote a program for an IBM 650 which had NO Ferrite Memory....had a rotating drum used as memory, to be replaced by 704's I believe.....

Was used in the development of the Polaris missile....my program buried the machine....IBM Rep was happy cause they bought a bigger faster replacement.


143 posted on 12/07/2004 9:30:10 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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