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I have gray hair and worked on those old machines - It was amazing that some women in Japan could weave 3 wires (write read and sense)through 4096 minute ferrit cores and it still worked - a computer was big if it had 8K - I was amazed when i saw my first 32k unit
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Daja Vu  Linux_4u! | 07/10/06
That is a wicked price...  scidhuv00 | 07/10/06
Are all the ZD editors asleep at the wheel?  dms350 | 07/10/06
Who cares?  balsover | 07/10/06
512 Mbytes vs 4 Mbits  abnranger76 | 07/10/06
Re: Wicked Price  moto1968 | 07/11/06
Big deal. I was using magnetic core in the 70's  rsmith187 | 07/10/06
Unfortunately, I do...  crewr@... | 07/10/06
Re: Unfortunately, I do...  steve.watne@... | 07/10/06
Just ask the NSA  gardoglee | 07/12/06
I also remember said the old man  PackerDawg | 07/10/06
I, too...  avacoder@... | 07/10/06
4096 ferrite donuts  waynearcelectcom | 07/10/06
Anybody around who worked with Eniac?  FirstNLastN | 07/10/06
Computer bugged ENIAC  jawladar | 07/10/06
Remember LEO  brucebp | 07/11/06
Magnetic Memory  allan_day@... | 07/11/06
LEO  Geoff Geduld | 07/11/06
Clear Core  bnemeth@... | 07/10/06
4096 ferrite donuts  sdilley@... | 07/10/06
Donuts  biggsie | 07/11/06
Gray Hair  ray@... | 07/11/06
core memory  jrhuark | 07/10/06
Magnetic Core  a.stolpen@... | 07/10/06
I didn't think anyone remembered mag core  stan@... | 07/10/06
Actually good memories  xokie | 07/10/06
So True! The 'good ol days'!  zdnet@... | 07/11/06
mram  deanb7 | 07/13/06
Memories for me too  tlr_z | 07/11/06
Great for instant restart  xevans.admin@... | 07/11/06
Core: big and noisy  FractalZone | 07/11/06
Noooo nooo nooooooooo  maldain | 07/12/06
That's not cheap? how about $1/Byte ?  null | 07/10/06
AMAZING PRICE BREAK!  skywire@... | 07/10/06
i don't think that's it  johnpeterharvey@... | 07/10/06
Amazing Price Break!  Bacchus618 | 07/11/06
Flashing back...  Wolfie2K3 | 07/12/06
freescale memory  gale@... | 07/10/06
Next thing that the NEOCONS will want to put in your brain  rjudd01@... | 07/10/06
Sounds more like the NEOLIBS to me  Celent | 07/10/06
NEOWHACK  Revrant | 07/10/06
Come on, guys!  CKayote | 07/10/06
Neocons?  eeevilconservative | 07/10/06
Magnetic Memory  drchips | 07/10/06
Man, and I thought bubble memory was cool!  HypnoToad | 07/10/06
Bubble memory?  Fasty | 07/30/06
FYI: 4-megabit = 1/2 megabyte  KrioniTWF | 07/10/06
MDRAM  tcahill@... | 07/10/06
Magnetic Memory?  Main Street | 07/10/06
As another old dude  xokie | 07/10/06
Cores for the Hubble  HapGail_HomeInMd@... | 07/10/06
Actually, core is a good choice for Hubble  rgetsla | 07/10/06
Whaaa  clark121121@... | 07/10/06
Implications for Boot Time?  michaelimbleau@... | 07/10/06
Re: Implications for Boot Time?  harrisharris | 07/10/06
Exactly!  xokie | 07/10/06
Blue Screens of Death at light speed ... oooh thats kewl  smoring | 07/10/06
Magnetic Memory  dboone53 | 07/10/06
The Hard drive slowest piece of the puzzle  Linux User 147460 | 07/10/06
They have them.  osreinstall | 07/10/06
Imagine the uptime  Linux User 147460 | 07/10/06
For the home user, it would be their last drive if not for mp3s.  osreinstall | 07/10/06
Very neat  Linux User 147460 | 07/10/06
Oh, no noise  osreinstall | 07/10/06
Shocking comment?  Bacchus618 | 07/11/06
The price is about $300 per gigabyte on small ones.  osreinstall | 07/11/06
it can go away depending on what you are doing...  mmcclure79 | 07/10/06
Always expensive at first  bswann@... | 07/10/06
Laptop with Mag. Bubble Memory: 1984  mlwinnig@... | 07/10/06
cheap over the counter  ej00807 | 07/11/06
Magnetic memory chip  mgit | 07/11/06
Finally-Memory to let us boot as fast as we POST  jamahl | 07/11/06
Does anyone know  baissie | 07/11/06
Mag-Mem = Hackers Paradise  contact-pro@... | 07/11/06
Who cares unless the thief is an espionage agent or pro-fraudster  GreatInca | 07/11/06
MRAM  dan@... | 07/11/06
The price should come down soon  gardoglee | 07/12/06
magnetic bubble memory  gstrub@... | 07/13/06

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