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Remember LEO
I didn't work with ENIAC, but the LEO series were similar. Magnetic cores were Knitted by girls specially brought in from Hong Kong. They were all married within six months and Lyons had to design a machine to doit
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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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