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Core memory from this era is elegant and beautiful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
by acidburnNSA 8y ago
Core memory from this era is elegant and beautiful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
- criddell 8y agoWe used to have a big frame of it hanging in our office. It was quaint, but I didn't get why, in 1995, why you would hang obsolete junk. A year or two ago I started to feel a little nostalgic and looked for it on eBay. That stuff is probably worth more now than when it was new tech.
- forinti 8y agoI once heard a story about how Brazil used to manufacture magnetic-core memory. When production stopped, lots of people lost their jobs and somehow this shaped Brazil's computer policy (they basically closed the market to foreign companies). But I haven't been able to find any proof of this.
- jecel 8y agoThe reserved market policy was created in 1977 specifically to keep IBM from launching their minicomputer, which would have preemptively killed off the effort by the government owned company Cobra (which would only launch their 530 mini in 1980) The relation with jobs was that the policy had full support from academics who were upset that foreign companies would hire their engineering students only for sales, with all design work done in their home countries. I am not aware of any big stink about factory line workers losing their jobs.