Old Video

[kagliostro]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKFngcZqly4


I like this old stuff


Franco

[sluckey]

I like this old stuff

Me too! I've actually seen some similar videos in the classroom back in the '60s.

[EL34]

Those are cool!

[shooter]

Flashback!  the clips on core memory tripped a trigger, the 1st CT I worked on with GE, a data General computer used core memory boards, I saved one, passed it on about 10yrs ago to a kid when he graduated from college with a computer science n programming degree.  He was so excited he wanted to figure out if he could incorporate it into a modern system

[sluckey]

I worked on a RADAR target processor up until about 2002. It was designed in the late '50s by Burroughs. It had a 2K x 52bit word core memory that was about a 10" cube. Very reliable. Also very sensitive to temperature changes. What a pain in the ass to align!

[shooter]

up until about 2002

WOW you are good!  keeping antiques alive that long is no easy feat!  my core's were 4 boards (11X17) crammed so close you had to put x-ray film 'tween them just to remove/insert, 50pin ribbons bridging them, GE finally "upgraded" sometime in the late '90s.  The workmanship of all those hair fine copper wires threading 1/8'' ferrite beads was a thing of artistic beauty!