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I purchased a... sheet? Block? of 1024 bits of core memory that came from a Soviet computer, and it was hand-woven. I have a hard time picturing people hand-wea

I purchased a... sheet? Block? of 1024 bits of core memory that came from a Soviet computer, and it was hand-woven. I have a hard time picturing people hand-weaving this core memory, and I'm guessing his core memory is smaller than the stuff I've got. Absolutely amazing.

vajrabum 10y ago
The story was that CDC had the densest cores (5 mil?) made at what was termed the Hong Kong core house.