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Steve Bellovin

@doop Show her a picture of core storage, with three wires woven through each tiny core…

Steve Bellovin

@neia @doop Oh yeah! But those I never used—core I used a lot… (Aside: circa 1966, I got a tour on an IBM facility, which had a salt shaker—admittedly, one with larger holes than normal—filled with cores…)

David Mankins

@SteveBellovin @neia @doop I have a 4096 bit core from some old Russian computer.

Photo of 4096bit Russian core module, with fleet for scale
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