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Speaking of core memory, it was a magazine ad for Deltamax which got Jay Forrester to start his work on core memory: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLpbhsE72
by leoc 2mo ago
Speaking of core memory, it was a magazine ad for Deltamax which got Jay Forrester to start his work on core memory: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLpbhsE72I&t=2408s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLpbhsE72I&t=2408s , 40m08s). Ernst Albers-Schönberg https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/archival_objects/1427123 https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/archival_objects/142... from General Ceramics whom Forrester got to work on formulating an alloy for the Whirlwind cores had previously worked at Steatit-Magnesia AG in Berlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeramTec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeramTec https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatit-Magnesia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatit-Magnesia .
> Dr. rer. nat. Ernst Albers-Schönberg
> ehem. Vorstandmitglied der Steatit-Magnesia AG, Lauf
> ehem. Dir. of Research Indiana General Corp. USA
p. ii in Elektrokeramik: Werkstoffe · Herstellung · Prüfung · Anwendungen 2nd ed., 1976, ISBN 978-3642809507
( https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/ferrite_core_memory_some_history.html https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/ferrite_core_memory_some_h... also has interesting pointers from Ernst Erb and Emilio Ciardiello about the early history of magnetic core memory development.)
What connection if any is there between pre-1946 German work on magnetic amplifiers and magnetic alloys and the pre-1946 German leaps forward in audio tape recording onto Magnetophons?